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Covid: study, worse pandemic risk. We need to prevent them

2020-10-29T16:17:48.301Z


(HANDLE)(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 29 - Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more quickly, cause more damage to the world economy and kill more people than Covid-19 unless the approach to the problem is changed by passing from reaction - that is after it has broken out - to prevention. This especially considering that an estimated 1.7 million other viruses still "undiscovered" in mammals and birds


(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 29 - Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more quickly, cause more damage to the world economy and kill more people than Covid-19 unless the approach to the problem is changed by passing from reaction - that is after it has broken out - to prevention.

This especially considering that an estimated 1.7 million other viruses still "undiscovered" in mammals and birds of which up to 850,000 could have the capacity to infect people and that the current economic impacts are 100 times higher than the estimated cost for prevention .



It is a scientific report from Ipbes (Intergovernmental Platform for Policy and Science on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) on biodiversity and pandemics drawn up after urgently consulting 22 world-class experts on the links between the degradation of nature and the growing risks of pandemic risk suggesting the way to reduce it. That is, trying to avoid the human activities that cause the loss of biodiversity, from deforestation to the trading of wildlife, through greater conservation of protected areas and measures that reduce the unsustainable exploitation of regions with high biodiversity.



This, the report says, will reduce wildlife-livestock-human contact and help prevent the spread of new diseases. (HANDLE).



Source: ansa

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