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Palm Oil Detectives

#News: 🌿 #Study finds #biodiversity loss linked to spread of #zoonotic diseases. Animal #agriculture, #deforestation and #climatechange intensify disease spillover from wildlife to humans. Be #vegan for them and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
news.mongabay.com/2025/02/decl

Mongabay Environmental News · Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study neededFive years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, hyperaware that pathogens can jump from animals to humans at any moment, bringing the next disruptive global health crisis that kills millions. But COVID-19 didn’t happen in a vacuum. Researchers have long warned that human […]
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Daniel Hoffmann 🥬

Why #biodiversity loss fosters #zoonotic disease. This article from 2010 is an eye opener.
nature.com/articles/nature0957

NatureImpacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases - NatureChanges in biodiversity have the potential to either increase or reduce the incidence of infectious disease in plants and animals — including humans — because they involve interactions among species. At a minimum, this requires a host and a pathogen; often many more species are involved, including additional hosts, vectors and other organisms with which these species interact. Felicia Keesing and colleagues review the evidence that reduced biodiversity affects the transmission of infectious diseases of humans, other animals and plants. Despite important questions still to be answered, they conclude that the evidence that biodiversity exerts a protective effect on infectious diseases is sufficiently strong to include biodiversity protection as a strategy to improve health.
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Samara

The #CDC did something AWESOME! Along with the USDA & Dept of Interior, it released the first-ever

“National One Health Framework to Address #Zoonotic Diseases & Advance Public Health Preparedness in the United States”

- for #health threats people & animals SHARE, including #covid19, #mpox #AvianFlu, and #Ebola

High Marks, Center for Disease Control! Earning your name this week 🏆

#Samara #SamaraSARS #SamaraVirus
cdc.gov/one-health/media/pdfs/

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