Professor Sarah Gilberts says human activity is driving the rising threat of viruses and that the risk is unlikely to diminish.
We should expect more animal-to-human disease outbreaks to emerge in future, a leading scientist has warned.vaccine, says human activity is driving the rising threat of viruses and that the risk is unlikely to reduce as globalisation continues.
"Greater population density, greater travel, deforestation - all of these things make it more likely that these outbreaks will happen and then something will spread," she told The Independent. "Because of the way things have been going in the world, it's more likely we'll have zoonotic infections causing outbreaks in the future."A zoonotic infection is a disease caused by a pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, that has jumped from an animal to a human.
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