“We seem to have lost sight of the deeper drivers of an accelerating risk of infectious disease transmission to the world,” wrote Leah Gerber, professor of conservation science and director of the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes at Arizona State University, in a recent piece for Issues in Science and Technology, referring to the root causes of the coronavirus pandemic. “Environmental degradation, and especially habitat destruction, is the underlying problem that creates conditions favorable to zoonotic jumping.” Experts worldwide!

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