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Altogether, the
study suggests
that climate
change will
become the
biggest upstream
risk factor for
disease
e me rg e nce -
ex ceedi n g
higher-pr ofi le
issues like
deforestation,
wildlife trade,
and industrial
agriculture. The
authors say the
solution is to pair
wildlife disease
surveillance with
real-time studies of environmental change. movements and interactions due to a warming
climate might increase the number of viruses
"We're closer to predicting and preventing the jumping between species."
next pandemic than ever," says Carlson. "This
is a big step towards prediction - now we have
to start working on the harder half of the Stopping spillover altogether is likely not
problem." possible. But the scientists urge that invest-
ments in wildlife disease surveillance systems
"The COVID-19 pandemic, and the previous can help raise the alarm when diseases do jump
spread of SARS, Ebola, and Zika, show between species. Beyond that, we can work
how a virus jumping from animals to to catch disease outbreaks before they
humans can have massive effects. To become pandemics.
predict their jump to humans, we need “We want to be building health care
to know about their spread among systems that can catch these
other animals," said Sam Scheiner, a outbreaks early, and keep them from
program director with the U.S. Vinita Ranjan spreading,” he says.
TGT Natural Science
National Science Foundation (NSF). RSKV ,New Ashok Nagar “The solutions here lie on the human
"This research shows how animal side.”

#FunFacts Its Impossible to burp in space
When you burp on Earth, gravity. Keeps down the
Solids and liquid – from the food you just ate,so only
the gas escapes from your mouth In the absence of
gravity, the Gas Cannot separate from the liquids and
solids, so burping essentially turns into puking.
Nikhil Sharma

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