Bard’s Felicia Keesing Featured in David Attenborough’s New BBC Documentary Extinction: The Facts, Discussing How Human-caused Changes to Habitat Put Us at Greater Risk for Pandemic Diseases
“Often the best reservoirs for the pathogens that can jump to humans are smaller-bodied species, like rats and mice and certain kinds of bats,” Keesing says. “When we have intact natural systems with high biodiversity, these species are kept in check, but when humans destroy habitat, the large predators and herbivores disappear first. Which means the smaller-bodied species are the big winners. They proliferate wildly, they live at super high density and are the ones far more likely to make us sick.”
Post Date: 09-22-2020
Post Date: 09-22-2020