{"id":30637,"date":"2024-04-19T17:57:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/a-new-road-map-shows-how-to-prevent-pandemics\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:57:55","slug":"a-new-road-map-shows-how-to-prevent-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/a-new-road-map-shows-how-to-prevent-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"A new road map shows how to prevent pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to limit the transfer of viruses between animals and humans? A new report gives examples of how to do that by keeping ecosystems intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic prevention road map<\/a>, published March 26 in\u00a0Nature Communications<\/em>, recommends protecting or restoring places where animals forage and rest, and minimizing human-wildlife encounters in more developed areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most outbreaks of previously unknown infectious diseases, like COVID-19 or HIV, are caused when a virus jumps from an animal to a human. That jumping is called zoonotic spillover. Wild animals stressed by food shortages or habitat loss become more susceptible to viral infections and may even shed more viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n