Human activity raises risk of more pandemics like Covid-19, warns UN report

Rising demand for wild meat, environmental destruction and unsustainable farming could lead to more pandemics such as Covid-19, a new report has warned.The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Livestock Research Institute said Covid-19 was only the latest in a growing number of diseases – including Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome, West Nile fever and Rift Valley fever – whose spread from animals to humans had been intensified by human activity.The report, …

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