Safe forests, safe people: On illness of animal origin

The quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus across the world has actually concentrated on the seemingly undetectable processes that help pathogens initially found in wild animals make the leap to humans. Illness of animal origin such as Ebola, HIV, Extreme Severe Breathing Syndrome, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, bird influenza and swine influenza have raised alarm over potential pandemics in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has actually verified the worst fears of researchers. The contagion, thought to have come from a wet market that kept live animals in Wuhan, China, points to many underlying factors: the damage of forests and trapping or farming of wild species has brought these animals closer to human beings, and the viruses they harbour find all set hosts in domestic animals, moving t