Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Preventing future pandemics starts with recognizing links between human and animal health

  • Written by Deborah Kochevar, Professor of Comparative Pathobiology and Dean Emerita, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine; Senior Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Preventing future pandemics starts with recognizing links between human and animal healthDisturbing the habitats of horseshoe bats, like these in Borneo, increases the risk of virus spillover.Mike Prince/Flickr, CC BY

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that zoonotic diseases – infections that pass from animals to humans – can present tremendous threats to global health. More than 70% of emerging and reemerging pathogens...

Read more: Preventing future pandemics starts with recognizing links between human and animal health

More Articles ...

  1. Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more organic food
  2. Veterans Day: How crosses and mementos help these Marines remember fallen comrades
  3. What is herd immunity? A public health expert and a medical laboratory scientist explain
  4. Small-town Pride celebrations emerge -- and show that LGBTQ life in America is flourishing outside of cities
  5. Why vaccine doses differ for babies, kids, teens and adults – an immunologist explains how your immune system changes as you mature
  6. Women are more competitive when they’re given an option to share winnings – a research finding that may help close the gender pay gap
  7. What the 100 nonprofits that raised the most money in 2020 indicate about charity today
  8. Clean energy innovation, methane cuts and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26
  9. Many scientists are atheists, but that doesn't mean they are anti-religious
  10. How photos of Afghan suffering shown over and over perpetuate inequality and harm
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more