We can prevent pandemics with wildlife disease surveillance

Animals health affects our health: around 60 per cent of emerging human infectious diseases spread to us from animals. More than 70 per cent of these are from wild animal populations.
COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2, are just the latest in a long, long list of diseases with a wild animal origin, says Professor Anna Meredith, Head of the Melbourne Veterinary School.
But we don’t need to be caught off-guard by disease. If we implemented a disease surveillance model to monitor pathogens in both wild and domestic animal populations, our responses to diseases could be more rapid and our policies better equipped to deal with pandemics - and the international trade in wildlife.
Professor Meredith worked with other world experts to develop such a model - learn about it in this video.
Study the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at Melbourne:
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Learn more about topics in this video:
• Testing wildlife could stop pandemics in their tracks: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articl...
• Don’t blame the pangolin (or any other animal) for COVID-19: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articl...
• The interconnectedness of human, animal and environmental health: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articl...

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amazing presentation