Emerging Infectious Diseases Threaten Biodiversity

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Understanding pathogens and parasites—and the future of the planet

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A new paper by Canadian and U.S. experts offers a historical perspective on global pandemics and the spillover events that have occurred since 1960 .

Ecologists have been trying to understand how biodiversity and disease are related for well over a century now.

The reason why most of our diseases originate in animals is that this situation has been evolving for as long as there have been animals.

One Health is expensive, currently estimated at 20 to 30 billion dollars U.S. a year. Who will pay for this? Are we sure that it will be more effective than the current approaches? The Pandemic agreement that member states of the World Health Organization are currently writing is stuck in part because there is no international consensus on One Health.

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