While the world continues to grapple with the ever-threatening bird flu without clear solutions, one thing is for sure: our demand for livestock and fur is in urgent need of reevaluation.
IN THE summer of 2013, I was six months pregnant and completing a five-week research attachment at the Chinese Institute of Pathogen Biology outside of Beijing.
In November 2019, the first known group of humans fell ill due to a mysterious viral pneumonia and by December 2019, the World Health Organization was alerted to a rapidly spreading disease from a coronavirus later named SARS-CoV-2.