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New roadmap to prevent pandemics centers on protecting biodiversity
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New roadmap to prevent pandemics centers on protecting biodiversity

An international team of 25 scientists, including researchers from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), has proposed a roadmap for how to prevent the next pandemic by conserving natural areas and promoting biodiversity, thereby providing animals with enough food, safe havens and distance to limit contact and the transfer of pathogens to humans.Pandemics begin when disease-harboring animals, such as bats, come in close proximity with people, livestock or other animals and pass on new pathogens. Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, Nipah, Hendra and possibly Ebola have all fatally spilled over from bats to humans, sometimes through an intermediate host.

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