Biodiversity and COVID-19: A report and a long road ahead to avoid another pandemic

Serge Morand; Claire Lajaunie

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2021.06.007

Biodiversity and COVID-19: A report and a long road ahead to avoid another pandemic

One Earth. 2021 Jul 23;4(7):920-923. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.06.007.

Authors

Serge Morand^{1

2

3}, Claire Lajaunie^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ CNRS ISEM - CIRAD ASTRE, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.
² Faculty of Veterinary Technology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.
³ Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ INSERM - LPED Laboratoire Population Environnement Développement, Aix-Marseille, France.
⁵ Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, Law School, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK.

Abstract

A report from a workshop organized by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on biodiversity and pandemics examined the scientific evidence on the origin of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other emerging zoonotic diseases. Here, we reflect upon the report's findings regarding how several important global initiatives are tackling the problems of preventing the emergence of zoonotic diseases by using the One Health approach.

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