Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system

GI Wegner, KA Murray, M Springmann, A Muller… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
A debate has emerged over the potential socio-ecological drivers of wildlife-origin zoonotic
disease outbreaks and emerging infectious disease (EID) events. This Review explores the …

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

M Worobey, JI Levy, L Malpica Serrano… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
emerged in 2019 is critical to preventing future zoonotic outbreaks before they become the …

Global governance for pandemic prevention and the wildlife trade

E Gallo-Cajiao, S Lieberman, N Dolšak… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Although ideas about preventive actions for pandemics have been advanced during the
COVID-19 crisis, there has been little consideration for how they can be operationalised …

COVID-19 monitoring with sparse sampling of sewered and non-sewered wastewater in urban and rural communities

DL Wannigama, M Amarasiri, P Hongsing, C Hurst… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Equitable SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in low-resource communities lacking centralized
sewers is critical as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) progresses. However, large …

Viral infections at the animal–human interface—Learning lessons from the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic

H Brüssow - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This Lilliput explores the current epidemiological and virological arguments for a zoonotic
origin of the COVID‐19 pandemic. While the role of bats, pangolins and racoon dogs as viral …

Advancing pathogen genomics in resource-limited settings

PM Pronyk, R de Alwis, R Rockett, K Basile… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Genomic sequencing has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance early pathogen detection
and characterization with implications for public health and clinical decision making …

A bolder One Health: expanding the moral circle to optimize health for all

S Coghlan, BJ Coghlan, A Capon, P Singer - One Health Outlook, 2021 - Springer
One Health is a ground-breaking philosophy for improving health. It imaginatively
challenges centuries-old assumptions about wellbeing and is now widely regarded as the …

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

S Morand, C Lajaunie - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Perceptions of COVID-19 origins and China's wildlife policy reforms

AL Zhu, R Chen, J Rizzolo, J Qian - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the link between perceptions of zoonotic risk and support for regulations such as
wildlife consumption bans, debates regarding the origins of COVID-19 are likely to have …

Risk assessment and preventive health behaviours toward COVID-19 amongst bushmeat handlers in Nigerian wildlife markets: Drivers and One Health challenge

NB Alhaji, IA Odetokun, MK Lawan, AM Adeiza… - Acta Tropica, 2022 - Elsevier
Over 70% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic and 72% of them have wildlife
reservoirs with consequent global health impacts. Both SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 …