Who will release the next pandemic?
This article explores the increasing risks of future pandemics driven by human activities such as wildlife trade, intensive farming, and global travel. It highlights warnings from health organizations that current global reforms are insufficient to mitigate these growing threats.
Why it matters
Understanding the drivers of zoonotic diseases is critical for global health security and preventing future economic and social crises.
The next pandemic may emerge from wildlife trade, intensive farming, land clearing, laboratories, global travel or antibiotic resistance, as human behaviour continues to multiply the risks of another major disease outbreak.
The article presents scientific warnings and public health data without clear political partisan framing.
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