Zoonotic diseases, the cause of most epidemics and
pandemics, including Covid-19, are caused by human – animal interaction. The most serious infectious diseases are
zoonotic, causing an estimated 3 million human deaths per year even before the
current Covid-19 pandemic. Zoonotic
disease is caused by a pathogen that “spills over”, from animals to
humans. Infections are then transmitted
directly among humans.
Emerging diseases are almost invariably zoonotic. An estimated 60% of all viruses that infect
humans came from animals, and 75% of all new infectious diseases in the past
decade are zoonotic. Examples include
Covid-19, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Ebola virus, SARS, MERS, Swine
Flu, and Avian Flu, and many others including the deadliest pandemics in
history: Black Death, Spanish Flu, HIV, and now Covid-19.
The global rate of zoonotic disease is
increasing. Without understanding the
creation of zoonoses - abuse and exploitation of the non-human species buy the
human speciesism, including eating them, wearing them, using them for
entertainment, and unnecessary tests, or Speciesism, and rectifying these
issues, it is impossible to prevent the next pandemic.
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