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SARS, Marburg, Zika, HIV, MPox: Epidemics and even pandemics caused by contact with wildlife are becoming increasingly common. In fact, nearly two thirds of infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic - caused by pathogens that can jump between animals and humans. The deadly Covid-19 pandemic, which caused over 7 million deaths worldwide, may be among those. As habitat is lost and global warming intensifies, this spillover - and the resulting pandemics - become more likely.
Dr. Neil Vora will discuss the connection between the loss of biodiversity and pandemics. He’ll explain One Health, the concept that human health is inextricably linked to the health of other animals and nature. He’ll talk about the work to prevent pandemics with solutions such as habitat preservation that make the spillover of viruses from animals to human beings less likely.
Neil Vora, MD, is an epidemiologist and Senior Advisor for One Health at Conservation International. He served for nearly a decade with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and he currently works as a physician for New York City’s tuberculosis program. Dr. Vora has spent much of his career chasing and treating infectious disease outbreaks, from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa to COVID-19 in New York City.
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