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1/2 Dr Peter Hotez warns: “The next big coronavirus pandemic is coming – the fourth one. I can’t tell you if it’s going to be next year or five years or 10 years, but it’s coming,” he warned.
“The reason why we’re seeing more and more of this is, in part, because of climate change and urbanization – human migrations encroaching into territories where bats are. It’s a combination of climate change with other social determinants.”
Hotez is co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s hospital and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in the US
#Coronavirus #pandemicrisk #pandemic#zoonotic #climatechange #urbanization
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/23/covid-cases-death-rate-risk-peter-hotez
2/2 We know what increases pandemic risk:
Land use change, agricultural expansion, and urbanization cause more than 30% of emerging disease events. Climate change and trade in wildlife, are also factors according to the @ipbes 2021 #pandemicreport.
Other researchers publishing in Lancet Planetary Health argue that The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health.
#pandemic #pandemicrisk #biodiversityloss #climatechange
https://takvera.blogspot.com/2021/11/pandemic-ponderings-protect-nature-to.html