Past viral spillover events underscore the importance of protecting wildlife habitats.
Want to limit the transfer of viruses between animals and humans? A new report gives examples of how to do that by keeping ecosystems intact.
Most outbreaks of previously unknown infectious diseases, like COVID-19 or HIV, are caused when a virus jumps from an animal to a human. That jumping is called zoonotic spillover. Wild animals stressed by food shortages or habitat loss become more susceptible to viral infections and may even shed more viruses..
Another way to “set ourselves up for success” to avert spillover, says road map coauthor Iroro Tanshi, an ecologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, is protecting wild places and “really honing in on breaking contact” with wild animal populations. In Nigeria, where Tanshi studies bats, she engages local communities in preventing human-caused forest fires and in providing people with alternative sources of protein to reduce the need to hunt bats in caves.
Ecological countermeasures such as those laid out in the road map may also protect animals from contracting viruses from humans.than vice versa.
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