Human expansion into wildlife areas and climate change increase the risk of zoonotic diseases by forcing more interaction between humans and animal populations.
“but we know that first of all as human expansion shrinks wildlife areas and fragments ecosystems humans are coming into more and more contact with animal populations that have nowhere to go and then as climate changes changing where different types of vegetation grow where different animal species l”
StarTalk · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 358K views on this topicExpanding human activity into wildlife habitats increases the likelihood of zoonotic pathogens spilling over into human populations.
“if you cut down the trees where the bats live in the farm jungle they don't just disappear they come in your garden instead and so when your kid goes outside and plays with the picks up a piece of fruit it might have some fat poo on it or bat saliva on it and then they touch they hate”
TED · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 54K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.