the Current pandemic has prompted scholars to give warning that our activity creates ideal conditions for the emergence of new infections.
Increasing human intervention in wild nature significantly increases the risk of pandemics such as the current outbreak Covid-19, according to an international team of researchers.
the Objective of the scientists was to try to understand where there are new infectious diseases, and to predict the source of new epidemics that present the greatest risk to humans.
a New method based on pattern recognition of infection, was used by scientists at the University of Liverpool, in the framework of international efforts aimed at finding more effective ways of dealing with future epidemics.
British biologists have studied where and under what circumstances was born the threat of the disease, previously unknown to medicine.
Based on analogies, the experts tried to calculate the most serious threat.
“Over the past 20 years, we have experienced six major disasters: SARS, MERS, Ebola, avian flu, swine flu, and Cоvid-19, — says Professor at the University of Liverpool Matthew Bailey’s. Five of the bullets we dodged, the sixth got us”.
“this is not the last pandemic with which we are faced. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully study the diseases of wild animals,” — said the expert Bi-bi-si.
it is based on the number of species that act as carriers of a pathogen, and the possibility of contact with people.
If the pathogen is included in the “black list”, the researchers recommend to focus on creating protection, without waiting for the beginning of the epidemic.
“In the next step we will try to determine which specific pathogens are able to cause a pandemic,” says Professor Bailey.
“There is considerable evidence that the man-modified landscapes with low diversity of life forms, such as fields and plantations, often associated with a higher risk for people of Contracting a particular infection,” says Professor Kate Jones of University College London.
“of Course, is not the only cause of disease, she says. — However, it is often those species that are easier to get along with person, for example, some rodents, at the same time be more effective carriers of pathogens”.
the Risk of direct or indirect contact between humans and wild animals convincingly demonstrates a number of examples.
So, the flash of Nipah virus in Malaysia in 1999 began on a pig farm, located on the edge of the forest. Pigs were eating fell on the earth for wild fruits, which bite and infect with his spit bats.
as a result, over 250 contracted brow��the EC had to deal with sick pigs, and more than a hundred died. The Nipah virus kills from 45% to 75% of infected people, while the mortality rate of coronavirus Covid-19 is estimated currently at approximately 6%.
“you Need to have a pre-designed algorithms of action in case this place happens outbreak or even something unusual, he says. — Did you know that new disease in the world suddenly manifest three four times a year. Not only in Asia and Africa, but also in Europe and the United States.”
Matthew Bailey agree that constant monitoring of new diseases is extremely important. “There was a nearly ideal setting for a pandemic”, he said.
“I’m Afraid it will happen again and again, says Professor Feb. — This has happened throughout time, while people interacted with the wildlife. The question is, what do we mean and how to react”.
the Current crisis, according to Eric Faivre, should make the world wonder.
“Everything that we use and take for granted the foods we eat, the materials in our smartphones; the more we consume, the more somebody making money on having to extract them from nature and traveling around the world. Need to ask ourselves how many resources we consume and how it affects nature.”
