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Climate change

could spark the next
Pandemic

H umans and wild animals face new challenges marine life is migrating to different places

and changing their breeding and feeding
for survival because of climate change.
More frequent and intense drought, storms,
species are migrating in response to a
heat waves, rising sea levels, melting patterns due to warming waters. Ocean
glaciers and warming oceans can directly changing climate 10 times faster than land
harm animals, destroy the places they live, species.
and wreak havoc on people's livelihoods
and communities. As Earth's climate continues to warm,
More than 80% of researchers predict wild animals will be
the earth's forced to relocate their habitats - likely to
regions with large human populations
dramatically increasing the risk of a viral
jump to humans that could lead to the
next pandemic.

Recently an international research
team led by scientists described the
link between climate change and viral
transmission at Georgetown
University and is published
April 28, 2022.
In their study, the
scientists conducted the
first comprehensive
assessment of how
climate change will
restructure the global
mammalian. The work
focuses on geographic
range shifts - the journeys
that species will undertake as
they follow their habitats into
new areas. As they encounter other
mammals for the first time, the study
projects they will share thousands of
viruses.
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