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Climate change will cause future pandemics

Climate change will cause future pandemics

Take the W uhan market in China , a possible cause of the Covid-19 pandemic , and extend it to a planetary level : Climate change is transforming the Earth into a vast pool of pathogens in the open air, ready to jump from one fallen animal to another.

Rising temperatures are forcing more and more species to migrate to areas already occupied by humans, favoring contact with other animals and the mutual exchange of thousands of viruses. The next pandemic will arise from these contacts , says a recent article in the journal Nature , which examines the relationship between global warming and all the viruses that colonize mammals .

According to scientists at Georgetown University in Washington , D.C. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ less hot, will encounter other mammals for the first time .

Therefore, pathogens capable of causing a pandemic , such as Ebola or coronaviruses, will have the opportunity to colonize new areas and multiply in new hosts, which can act as a springboard to humans .

The new animal destinations will increasingly coincide with areas with a high human population density , making new hotbeds for a possible pandemic spread . This process is already taking place in a world that has reached a temperature of +1 . 2 ° C higher than in the pre - industrial era , and when man has exceeded habitat and resource consumption.

But the study goes a step further , and suggests that the climate crisis will become the main risk factor for new pandemics to emerge, even more so than deforestation , trafficking in exotic animals or the intensive spread of livestock and agriculture .

“Ne shqetësohemi për tregjet, sepse kontakti me kafshë që nuk janë të shëndetshme, dhe kombinimet e panatyrshme, krijon mundësinë e shfaqjes graduale të sëmundjeve të reja. Ashtu si SARS që kaloi nga lakuriqët e natës tek vjedulla, dhe nga vjedulla tek njerëzit.

Por tregjet nuk janë më vende kaq të veçanta. Pasi me ndryshimin e klimës, ky proces do të bëhet realitet për çdo vend natyror, thotë Kolin Karlson, autori kryesor i studimit.

Përveç shkaktimit të pandemisë së ardhshme, shkëmbimi i viruseve mund të kërcënojë shëndetin e kafshëve, si dhe të rrezikojë ruajtjen e specieve të përfshira. Prandaj, do të jetë inevojshëm kombinimi i studimeve mbi migrimin e kafshëve për shkak të ngrohjes globale,me një mbikëqyrje në kohë të rreziqeve epidemiologjike të lidhura me të.

" When a Brazilian night owl travels to the Apal Ashe region of the United States , we have to worry about which viruses are accompanying it. "Only by trying to identify these crossings between species in real time will we be able to prevent this process from translating into other spreads or other pandemics . " / Focus

* This article was published by Bota.al and reposted by Tiranapost.al