Posted on 05/31/2021 3:31:47 PM PDT by Libloather
For well over a year we’ve been living through the devastating consequences of a highly transmissible coronavirus. While the pandemic it caused is unprecedented by many measures, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is just one of many SARS-related coronaviruses lurking among wildlife in some regions of the world, many of which could theoretically jump to human populations under the right conditions.
Figuring out what those conditions are is an urgent priority, and scientists have made a lot of progress on that front. They’ve learned, for example, that when forests get fragmented by deforestation or roads, it increases the likelihood of a virus “spilling over” from animal to human. What’s more of a mystery is where, exactly, those conditions come together to create the highest risk for the next coronavirus emergence.
A new analysis, published Monday in the journal Nature Food, begins to answer that important question — specifically, by pinpointing where another coronavirus could jump to humans from horseshoe bats, which are known to carry SARS-related coronaviruses. By combining data on horseshoe bat habitats, land-use change, human population density, and other factors known to increase the risk of spillover, the researchers produced a map of “hot spots” in Asia and Europe where the risk is highest.
While the study doesn’t offer new insights about the origins of the novel coronavirus, which researchers suspect came from bats, it does point out where similar coronaviruses could emerge in the future. Alarmingly, the study finds that in many regions, especially southern China, these spillover risks are high. And it provides yet more evidence that preventing the next coronavirus pandemic will require reducing the root causes of a spillover, such as deforestation - not just responding to outbreaks after they happen.
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That is frigen disgusting
Wherever there’s a “scientist”, or “doctor”, that’s where it’s going to come from.
I’m sure Faggi and his butt buddies in Wuhan are working on it right now...
Did CV-19 jump from animal to human ?
Wuhan Institute of Virology.
With funding via “Dr.” fau-Xi.
The devastating thing was government, not the virus itself.
What a load.
Pigs.
Chickens.
Demonrats.
Agreed. What a bunch of garbage, passing as news for the non-thinkers.
Lies lies and more lies.
A bioweapons research lab in China. The one in Wuhuan comes to mind.
Hmmmm ... which other ChiCom labs receive US government funding to lose control of a bioengineered virus next?
“Where could the next coronavirus jump to humans? New research offers clues.”
Well, presumably that is already known. In chinese labs.
Oh my. Already planning and preparing us for the next plandemic.
my guess is free republic with all the daily fear porn posted here...
what happened to this place???...
Right through your TV.... that’s where.
In a lab. What a stupid, agenda driven article.
What ever laboratory has Fauci and his gain of function money, that's where you'll see the next "jump".
This article is CCP approved!
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