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Prevention at the source in the news

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Let’s Seize the Moment to Prevent Future Pandemics

PBS

Tue Sep 2024

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What's Driving Avian Influenza Virus Evolution? Human Food Systems

R. Alders and D. Pfeiffer

Tue Jun 2024

Beautiful Landscape

‘Healthy humans without a healthy planet is a logical fallacy’: Interview with Dr. Sakib Burza

Sonam Lama Hyolmo

Sun Jun 2024

Farmer and a Cow

Republicans, concerned about dairy industry, urge calm about H5N1 bird flu

Sarah Owermohle

Fri May 2024

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Climate change increases chances of zoonotic disease ‘spillover’

Financial Times

Mon Apr 2024

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Meet the Aussie vet dedicated to saving chickens and giving villages food security

The Land

Sun Feb 2024

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New team to tackle viral spillover for pandemic prevention

Devex

Tue Oct 2023

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The Threat of Another Pandemic Haunts Our Sleep

Common Dreams

Tue Sep 2023

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The world's bat lands are under attack, seeding risk of a new pandemic. Here's where.

Reuters

Tue May 2023

Seagulls

Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us?

The New York Times

Sat Apr 2024

‘The Last of Us’ Is Right. Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish.

The New York Times

Sun Apr 2 2023

New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market

The New York Times

Thur Mar 16 2023

Wanted: Evidence-based discourse on pandemic origins and prevention

The Hill

Sun Mar 12 2023

Blind spots in biodefense

Science

Thur Feb 16 2023

Global biodiversity deal is not pandemic proof

The Lancet Planetary Health

Thur Feb 2 2023

‘Silent Spring’ still holds lessons for keeping the planet, and ourselves, healthy

Harvard Public Health

Tue Jan 24 2023

Protecting Wildlife Key to Preventing the Next Big Pandemic

U.S. News

Tue Nov 22 2022

After 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, translating One Health into action is urgent

The Lancet

Mon Oct 24 2022

New World Bank pandemic fund must prioritize prevention

The Hill

Mon Sept 5 2022

World Bank Bias Threatens Pandemic Breakthrough

Democracy Journal

Wed July 20 2022

What’s the link between deforestation and public health/infectious diseases?

Dear Pandemic

Sat Jun 25 2022

A day late and a dollar short on monkeypox

POLITICO

Thur May 26 202

Monkeypox isn’t the disease we should be worried about

The Guardian

Wed May 25 2022

WWF report calls forests a vital public health solution

Mongabay

Thur Mar 10 2022

Wuhan market was epicentre of pandemic’s start, studies suggest

Nature

Sun Feb 27 2022

Floresta amazônica é fundamental para evitar novas pandemias, diz estudo

Valor Economico

Fri Feb 4 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Mongabay

Fri Feb 4 2022

Why stopping deforestation must be a priority for public health

The Hill

Sat 27 Nov 2021

As COVID-19 recedes in US a new worry emerges: wildlife passing on the virus

The Guardian

Thu 11 Nov 2021

How environmental damage can lead to new diseases

The Economist

Tue 19 Oct 2021

Viruses don’t stop at our borders

Euractiv

Fri 07 Oct 2021

As COVID-19 cases rise, global task force lays out how to avert future pandemics

Common Dreams

Wed 18 Aug 2021

World leaders ‘ignoring’ role of destruction of nature in causing pandemics

The Guardian

Fri 04 June 2021

The Best Way To prevent The next pandemic? Maybe saving tropical forests

WBUR

Thu 20 May 2021

Why experts say tackling deforestation could be key to stopping future pandemics?

CBC Radio

Mon 12 April 2021

One year later, we still have no plan to prevent the next pandemic

The New York Times

Tue 16 Mar 2021

Calling COVID-19 a crisis of humanity's own making, coalition says healing 'broken relationship with nature' key to stopping next pandemic

Common Dreams, US

Tue 09 Mar 2021

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The Veterinarians Preventing the Next Pandemic

The New Yorker

Wed Aug 2024

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Our Desire for Inexpensive Food Is Putting Us in Danger

The New York Times

Wed Jun 2024

Pest Control

How climate change affects vector-borne diseases

Adrienne Surprenant

Tue May 2024

Dairy Farm

Could bird flu cause a human pandemic?

Vox

Tue Apr 2024

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Deforestation opens paths for disease spread from animals to humans

Financial Times

Mon Apr 2024

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Bird Flu Has Made a Terrifying Leap That's Devastated Argentina's Seal Populations

Tessa Koumoundouros

Tue Jan 2024

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Lancet launches major ‘spillover’ investigation as two die of bird flu, including a toddler

Telegraph

Wed Oct 2023

Covid 19

The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin

The New York Times

Tue Jul 2023

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Is fur farming worth the epidemic risk?

Dialogue Earth

Tue May 2023

Avian Influenza Virus Presents ‘Apocalyptic’ Threat To Wildlife Around The World

TED

Jan 2024

Why saving animals and nature is vital to stopping pandemics

Devex

Thur Mar 30 2023

The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic

The Atlantic

Thur Mar 16 2023

Seeding hope

ProPublica

Tue Mar 7 2023

Be warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place

The Guardian

Wed Feb 8 2023

Habitat loss and climate change increase the risk of new diseases

The Economist

Tue Jan 31 2023

The High Price Of Holiday Turkeys Is A Reminder That Human And Animal Health Are Deeply Connected

Forbes

Wed Nov 23 2022

Deforestation Brings Bat-Borne Virus Home to Roost

The New York Times

Wed Nov 16 2022

Preventing and Preparing for Pandemics With Zoonotic Origins

Council on Foreign Relations

Fri Oct 21 2022

It’s Time to Get Serious About Preventing Pandemics

Impakter

Thurs Aug 25 2022

Environment, Part of One Health, Is Often Missing in Action

Impakter

Tues July 12 2022

Africa's outbreak sentinels

Nature Medicine

Fri June 17 2022

Local Leaders Unitedly Push For One Health Approach. Will G20 Leaders Tango?

Scoop

Fri June 3 2022

‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics

The Guardian

Thur Apr 28 2022

Do three new studies add up to proof of COVID-19’s origin in a Wuhan animal market?

Science Insider

Mon Feb 28 2022

COVID-19: Wie Forscher zukünftige Pandemien verhindern wollen

Deutsches Ärzteblatt

Fri Feb 4 2022

Pandemics Are Expensive. Preventing Them Is Cheap.

Huffpost

Fri Feb 4 2022

One Health approach to prevent emergence of zoonotic pathogens

Borneo Bulletin

Thu Feb 3 2022

The plague is more likely now thanks to climate change

GIZMODO

Fri 19 Nov 2021

Worth a shot: speeding COVID-19 vaccines to conflict zones

POLITICO

Thu 11 Nov 2021

Newly discovered bat viruses give hints to COVID-19 origins

New York Times

Thu 14 Oct 2021

‘Spillover’ diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans

National Geograpic

Thu 06 Oct 2021

Protecting forests and changing agricultural practices are essential,
cost-effective actions to prevent pandemics

Harvard Chan C-CHANGE/Harvard Global Health Initiative

Wed 18 Aug 2021

“One Health” and COVID-19, one year later

WWF

Mon 24 May 2021

We have a chance to prevent pandemics — will we?

The Hill

Wed 19 May 2021

How to stop a pandemic before it starts, illustrated

Politico

Fri 09 April 2021

Inaction leaves world playing ‘Russian roulette’ with pandemics, say experts

The Guardian

Tue 9 Mar 2021

The next pandemic: last week tonight with
John Oliver

HBO, US

Mon 15 Feb 2021

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Beyond Bird Flu: Preventing Pandemics at the Source

Charlotte Baylis

Jul 2024

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The Dairy Industry Must Act Faster to Keep H5N1 from Starting a Human Epidemic

Scientific American

Tue Jun 2024

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Meat, Freedom and
Ron DeSantis

The New York Times

Mon May 2024

Free Range Cows

America’s Infectious-Disease Barometer Is Off

The Atlantic

Tue Apr 2024

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Should Big Pharma pay poor countries for finding new diseases?

Vox

Wed Feb 2024

Temperature Check

Researchers have discovered a surprising factor that could help prevent the next global pandemic

Cole Patterson

Sun Jan 2024

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Opinion: The Simplest Way to Prevent the Next Pandemic? Leave Bats Alone.

Undark

Tue Sep 2023

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THE SCIENTIST AND THE BATS

ProPublica

Mon May 2023

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Map of Bushmeat Consumption Reveals Pandemic Risks

Scientific American

Mon May 2023

How to stop the next pandemic? Stop deforestation

TED

Jul 2023

Why areca nut plantations are driving 'monkey fever'

BBC Future

Thur Mar 16 2023

How Forest Loss Can Unleash the Next Pandemic

ProPublica

Thur Mar 16 202

On the edge

ProPublica

Mon Feb 27 2023

An Even Deadlier Pandemic Could Soon Be Here

The New York Times

Fri Feb 3 2023

3 things the world is doing to prepare for the next pandemic

World Economic Forum

Mon Jan 30 2023

Why hungry bats could start the next pandemic

The Telegraph

Wed Nov 23 2022

One Health Approach Can Prevent the Next Pandemic

The World Bank

Mon Oct 24 2022

Climate change may make pandemics like COVID-19 much more common

ABC News

Sat Sept 10 2022

Get serious about ‘one health’

The Tribune India

Thurs July 28 2022

Healthier ecosystems and food systems in East Asia and Pacific can reduce global pandemic risks

World Bank Blogs

Tues June 28 2022

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Monkeypox - a warning and what Bill Gates needs to know

The Express

Sat May 28 2022

Monkeypox: End poaching and deforestation to tackle zoonotic diseases

Euronews

Thur May 26 2022

Best Practices to Confront Pandemics at the Source

The Revelator

Fri Apr 8 2022

New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin

The New York Times

Sun Feb 27 202

On ne peut pas se contenter de stratégies post-déclenchement des épidémies

L'Obs

Fri Feb 4 2022

Failure to prevent pandemics at source is ‘greatest folly’, say scientists

The Guardian

Fri Feb 4 2022

Why protecting the planet is essential to preventing future pandemics

CNN Business

Mon 17 Jan 2022

First known covid case was vendor at wuhan market, scientist says

New York Times

Thu 18 Nov 2021

Preventing future pandemics starts with recognizing links between human and animal health

The Conversation

Wed 03 Nov 2021

WHO unveils new 26-member panel to restart study of the pandemic’s origins

Science Insider

Wed 13 Oct 2021

What will it take to save the planet? Embracing interdependence

The Hill

Thu 09 Sept 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Mongabay

Tue 03 Aug 2021

Harvard Launches international scientific task force to prevent pandemics at the source

Harvard Chan C-CHANGE

Thu 20 May 2021

Coronavirus: do cry over spillovers

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Tue 13 April 2021

The huge hole in Biden's pandemic prevention plan

The Hill

Mon 05 April 2021

Our destruction of wildlife habitats will trigger new pandemics, says new group

The Hill, US

Tue 9 Mar 2021

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