New Delhi, (PTI) Pandemic prevention plans should centre around conserving nature and biodiversity which would secure the food and shelter needs of animals, limiting contact and the transfer of pathogens to humans, researchers have advocated in a new study.
Pandemics, or zoonotic diseases, are considered to begin with a ‘spillover’ event, involving the transfer of disease-causing pathogens circulating among wild animals to humans, livestock or other animals in close proximity.
The international team of researchers has outlined its “evidence-based approach” in the study published in the journal Nature Communications and based it on case studies, including research on how horses and humans become infected with the fatal Hendra virus in Australia.
