COVID and Our Thinking On Wildlife Diseases
The ongoing pandemic is not just a concern for humans.
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that we need to be more aware of how we interact and coexist with wildlife. By Dr. Dave Samuel
Obviously, COVID-19 has dominated our news for the past eight months. But it has also brought our attention to some wildlife diseases and problems that must be resolved.
The debate about how this pandemic got started has tailed off in the past few months. Initially, there was all kinds of news on how COVID-19 got started. Was it “created” in a lab in Wuhan, China? Did China release it by accident (or on purpose) to impact the United States? Or did it spread from wildlife, in particular bats, in an open market where people in Wuhan go to buy meat and other foods? Bats carry other COVID strains, and humans who consume those species can become infected, so the idea that it came from bats to humans who
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