The SARS-CoV-2 virus at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is one ten-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter. How can such a microscopic organism have such an immense impact on global health?
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Human damage to biodiversity is leading us into a pandemic era. A new report shows we must urgently transform our relationship with the environment.
Needed: less wild meat in cities, more wildlife experts in public health.
Importing dogs into Canada has also introduced a flesh-eating parasite that is transmissible to humans. Veterinarians, researchers and public health officials should work together to curtail the disease.
Deforestation and extreme blazes threaten the region’s biodiversity, risk transforming the rainforest into a semi-arid savannah and expose people to zoonoses that could spur new pandemics.
An unprecedented level of research has gone into understanding the novel coronavirus. Here’s what we still don’t know.
Forests provide an essential buffer between people and wildlife — and the viruses they carry. Global agriculture is destroying forests, harming biodiversity and may be putting human life at risk.
Plenty of species are susceptible to infection, but during the pandemic only mink seem to have passed the virus on to humans.
A new study estimates that $22 billion to $30 billion dollars per year needs to be spent to maintain forests and reduce the likelihood of a pathogen jumping from wildlife to humans.
Do bats hold the secret to defeating coronaviruses?
Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.
The smallpox virus appears to have been with humanity for millennia before a global vaccination drive wiped it out. Current genome research suggests how smallpox spread and where it came from.
Urban growth and development affects human-animal relationships, as shown by the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Archaeologists decode the stories told by bones and what accompanies them.
Australia has been identified as a hotspot for emerging diseases, which occurs when human activities collide with a richness of animal species.
Animal suffering not only harms other species, it endangers our own. Here’s how we can do better.
Bats get a lot of negative press, but they also make positive contributions to the environment and to our lives.
Displaced people are particularly at risk from zoonotic diseases transmitted between animals and humans.
Illegal wild animal meat is found in cities right across the world and poses a very real threat of infecting people.
The US and its allies are demanding answers over how COVID-19 became a pandemic. But instead of pointing fingers at China, the inquiry should focus on scientific clues to help us thwart future disasters.
Top contributors
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Directeur régional Asie du Sud-Est, vétérinaire et épidémiologiste, Cirad
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Anthropologie, EHESS, CNRS, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Collège de France, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Veterinarian epidemiologist, Cirad
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Catedrático de Microbiología. Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología., Universidad de Salamanca
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Director, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University
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Lawyer, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Disease Ecology, Griffith University
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Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool and International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya, University of Liverpool
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Dean Faculty of Natural Sciences and Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Deputy head of ASTRE research unit, epidemiologist, Cirad
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(Formerly) Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor in Animal Ecology, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
