Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Mongabay
Feb 12, 2025, 11:38 am757 ptsInteresting
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, hyperaware that pathogens can jump from animals to humans at any moment, bringing the next disruptive global health crisis that kills millions. But COVID-19 didn’t happen in a vacuum.…

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