Want to Prevent Pandemics? Stop Spillovers

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.

This article proposes four key actions that can be taken to prevent outbreaks from zoonotic spillover: protecting tropical forests, regulating or banning live wildlife markets, improving biosecurity for farmed animals, and improving health and economic security, particularly in hotspots for disease emergence. For those digging deeper into zoonotic spillover for this week's exercise, you will find the original paper in the optional resources section.

Original text:
 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01312-y#:~:text=faces%20another%20pandemic.-,Four%20actions,-The%20risk%20of

Author(s): 
Neil M. Vora, Lee Hannah and Susan Lieberman et al.

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