The report is estimated that about 1.7 million unknown viruses exist on mammals and birds, including 850,000 types that are likely to infect humans.
Most of the big outbreaks over the past 100 years, fromSpanish flu pandemicIn 1918 to Covid-19, all of the human activities promoted, leading to the continuous recession of nature.The increasing risk of outbreaks means that the world is in the "era of pandemic" - the top experts emphasized in a recent discussion sponsored by the United Nations.
"The way we use the land; expand and intensify agriculture; production, trading and unsustainable consumption are interrupting nature and increasing the contact between wildlife carrying pathogens and humans and humansThis is the path to the pandemic, "said Dr. Peter Daszak, president of Ecohealth Alliance ecological health organization, one of the top 22 scientists behind research and sharing.
However, the risk of infection from animal to humans can be "significantly reduced" by drastic actions to prevent the destruction of biodiversity, such as setting up a natural conservation area andStrengthen measures to reduce unsustainable exploitation in highly biodiversity areas.
Meanwhile, the cost to implement such a pandemic "preventive measures" is only about 1/100 times compared to the "response measures" such as the current development of vaccines or isolation.As of July 2020, Covid -19 caused damage of about 8 - 16 million USD to the global economy.In the United States alone, the damage could be up to 16 million USD at the end of 2021.
Efforts to improve food security and eliminate species that are at risk of transmitting epidemics from wildlife trading activities - with the support of law enforcement agencies - will also contribute to reducing it.The risk of new pandemic outbreaks in the future.