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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