Bard College Biology Professor Felicia Keesing Coauthors Overview of New Global Study Showing That Human-Caused Changes to Ecosystems Favor Species Most Likely to Cause Human Illness
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York, Aug. 6 -- Bard College issued the following news release:
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered by a coronavirus of animal origin has awakened the world to the threat that zoonotic diseases pose to humans. While examples of land-use changes increasing the risk of zoonotic disease have been accumulating for decades, questions have remained about the scale of the pattern and its specific underlying mechanisms. In a new large-scale study (https://www.nature.com . . .
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered by a coronavirus of animal origin has awakened the world to the threat that zoonotic diseases pose to humans. While examples of land-use changes increasing the risk of zoonotic disease have been accumulating for decades, questions have remained about the scale of the pattern and its specific underlying mechanisms. In a new large-scale study (https://www.nature.com . . .