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Agricultural expansion, human settlements, concentrated livestock production and forest fragmentation. These are just some of the global land-use changes, unsustainable for the environment, which have taken place in recent years. These changes are creating “hotspots”, that are areas where conditions are ripe for the transmission of coronaviruses from wild animals to humans.
This is what emerges from a study just published in Nature Food, by a team of researchers composed of Maria Cristina Rulli and Nikolas Galli of the Politecnico di Milano, Paolo D’Odorico of the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and David Hayman of Massey University (New Zealand).