Biology Professor Felicia Keesing’s Research on Disease Risk and Biodiversity Loss Cited by Guardian Article on US Covid Origins Report
“Since the evidence is by now overwhelming that long-term human activity is accelerating the emergence of novel pathogens and increasing the risk of pandemics, the question investigators should really be asking is: did some recent, one-off event such as a lab accident exacerbate the already high and growing risk of spillover of a virus with pandemic potential caused by a decades-long shift towards industrialised farming and the wildlife trade?” writes Laura Spinney in the Guardian, citing Keesing’s April 2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) paper.
Post Date: 08-28-2021
Post Date: 08-28-2021