A United Nations report suggests that 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic

A United Nations report suggests that 75% of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, which means illnesses that jumped from animals to humans.

Most of them come from the tropics, where meat from wild animals is widely consumed.







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David Ojcius is Professor at the University of the Pacific in San Francisco, USA. He gained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and did research at Rockefeller and Harvard before moving to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, where he worked for thirteen years. His research interests include viruses and intracellular bacteria, interactions with the innate immune system, microbiota, biochemistry and cell biology of infected cells, inflammation and aging. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-research-in-microbial-sciences/editorial-board/david-m-ojcius-phd
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