People infecting animals, people infecting animals – from COVID-19 to bird flu, preventing epidemics requires protecting all species
When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans were the only species with reported cases of the disease. While early genetic analyses pointed to horseshoe bats as evolutionary hosts for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, no reports had yet emerged indicating that it could be transmitted from humans… Read More »