A fresh outbreak of monkeypox in Europe and the United States in recent weeks isn’t just a threat to public health. It’s also a warning sign.
More and more dangerous viruses, having evolved in animal populations, are jumping to the human population. Bird flu. Mers. Sars-CoV-1. And of course Sars-CoV-2, which has killed 6.3 million people since the very first infection in Wuhan, China, 30 months ago.
It’s not hard to see why these animal-to-human “zoonotic” viral outbreaks are getting more severe and more frequent. We’re chopping down...
More and more dangerous viruses, having evolved in animal populations, are jumping to the human population. Bird flu. Mers. Sars-CoV-1. And of course Sars-CoV-2, which has killed 6.3 million people since the very first infection in Wuhan, China, 30 months ago.
It’s not hard to see why these animal-to-human “zoonotic” viral outbreaks are getting more severe and more frequent. We’re chopping down...
- 5/23/2022
- by David Axe
- Rollingstone.com
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