Time magazine reports that healthy ecosystems can restrain pathogens from leaving the wild, according to a senior scientist at Conservation International, Lee Hannah.
The role of biodiversity in disease prevention has received increased attention. A 2015 “state of knowledge review” of biodiversity and human health by the United Nations, recorded that “an ecological approach to disease, rather than a simplistic ‘one germ, one disease’ approach, will provide a richer understanding of disease-related outcomes.”
Recent research has given more support to the idea that biodiversity protection in one part of the world can prevent novel diseases from emerging and leaping into another.
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