The Covid-19 question: How do we prevent future pandemics?
by Jeremy Hance on 9 March 2021
The EndPandemics alliance brings together various groups working to prevent future zoonotic disease outbreaks by ending the wildlife trade and the destruction of nature, and transforming agriculture.
Its founders say wildlife markets, such as the one in Wuhan from where COVID-19 is believed to have originated, are ticking time bombs where animal-borne viruses can enter the human population.
Also helping drive humans and wildlife into closer contact is deforestation, including for agriculture such as oil palm; a bat found near an oil palm plantation in Guinea is believed to have sparked the worst outbreak yet of Ebola.
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Liberians On High Alert, Called For Borders Closure, As Ebola Kills Three In Guinea Liberians On High Alert, Called For Borders Closure, As Ebola Kills Three In Guinea
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As Guinea has officially declared that it is dealing with an Ebola epidemic after the deaths of at least three people from the virus, Liberia is now on high alert with Liberians calling on the Government to see reason in closing border between Liberia and Guinea.
The impact of this epidemic which took the lives of thousands lives with 11,310 deaths been reported in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, a situation that devastated the entire sub-region is once again creating fears in Liberians following the pronouncement that it has again showed in face in Guinea.