Name: How to Stop the Next Pandemic | Coronavirus News
Uploaded: 2021-06-02T08:14:56.000Z
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This graph can tell you a lot about your future.

Each bar shows how many new infectious diseases

Each disease on this list posed a new pandemic threat.

It was around 1960 when the number began to rise.

it wasn't just two or three new diseases that year —

a scientist appeared on TV with a warning.

“What worries me the most is that we're

that we're going to suddenly find a SARS virus that

moves from one part of the planet to another,

And today, stuck at home in a seemingly never-ending

pandemic purgatory, it appears that we did not

Covid-19 has opened our eyes to the danger.

But has it opened them enough to look past this pandemic

We tracked down that same scientist today

to ask him: How do you stop the next pandemic?

“We see an increased frequency of emerging pandemics.

We also still have the ones that emerged recently.

So we're adding to the stock of known pandemic pathogens

That's not a good place for us as a species right now.”

If you want to know how to stop the next pandemic,

you first need to know why they're happening.

There have never been 7.7 billion large-body

vertebrates of one species on this planet

“— a very unmystical, black-hole Darwinian materialist.”

He's been writing about the origin of infectious diseases

causing ecological wreckage that's unprecedented,

“Pandemics emerge due to our ecological footprint.

And our cultural footprint is accelerating exponentially.”

That's Peter Daszak, the scientist who warned us in 2003.

He's sometimes referred to as a virus hunter.

“It's the connection between humans and animals

people move into a new region through things

like road building and deforestation, mining,

palm oil production, timber and livestock production.

They come across wildlife that we've not really

The pathogens spill over into them, and then

And just many, many more opportunities for spillover

Christian Walzer is a global veterinarian

and executive director for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

“The destruction happening at the edge of forests

is one of the areas where we're very concerned.

Changing the trees that bats, for example, would roost on,

They may be driven into an area where there's

So what do these new contact areas look like?

relationship with wildlife is increasingly

creating dangerous pandemic possibilities.

So let's say you want to sell toothpaste.

In all of those cases, you need palm oil.

So you burn down a forest in Malaysia to grow palm trees.

So the bats find a new home, near some fruit trees

makes its way into the farmers who own the property.

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