Ban live animal markets to avert pandemics, says UN biodiversity chief
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...extinction
INTRO: The United Nations’ biodiversity chief has called for a global ban on wildlife markets – such as the one in Wuhan, China, believed to be the starting point of the coronavirus outbreak – to prevent future pandemics.
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the acting executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said countries should move to prevent future pandemics by banning “wet markets” that sell live and dead animals for human consumption, but cautioned against unintended consequences.
China has issued a temporary ban on wildlife markets where animals such as civets, live wolf pups and pangolins are kept alive in small cages while on sale, often in filthy conditions where they incubate diseases that can then spill into human populations. Many scientists have urged Beijing to make the ban permanent... (MORE)
RELATED (Scivillage thread): Gabon bans sale and eating of bats and pangolins
Coronavirus could become a seasonal threat unless it’s controlled across the globe
https://www.newsmax.com/us/fauci-coronav...id/961447/
EXCERPT: Top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday the coronavirus could become a seasonal threat unless it’s controlled across the globe. In an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health— and a member of the White House coronavirus response team — said it’s “unlikely” the virus will be eradicated.
“Unless we get this globally under control, there's a very good chance that it will assume a seasonal nature,” he said, explaining, “when we get it down to the point where it really is at a very low level, we need to be prepared that since it unlikely it will be completely eradicated from the planet, that as we get into next season, we may see the beginning of a resurgence.”
He said there is a push now to have preparedness for a next round, as well as for a vaccine and therapeutic interventions. “Hopefully if in fact we do see that resurgence, we will have interventions that we did not have in the beginning of the situation that we're in right now,” he said... (MORE)
VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-...il-5-2020/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...extinction
INTRO: The United Nations’ biodiversity chief has called for a global ban on wildlife markets – such as the one in Wuhan, China, believed to be the starting point of the coronavirus outbreak – to prevent future pandemics.
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the acting executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said countries should move to prevent future pandemics by banning “wet markets” that sell live and dead animals for human consumption, but cautioned against unintended consequences.
China has issued a temporary ban on wildlife markets where animals such as civets, live wolf pups and pangolins are kept alive in small cages while on sale, often in filthy conditions where they incubate diseases that can then spill into human populations. Many scientists have urged Beijing to make the ban permanent... (MORE)
RELATED (Scivillage thread): Gabon bans sale and eating of bats and pangolins
Coronavirus could become a seasonal threat unless it’s controlled across the globe
https://www.newsmax.com/us/fauci-coronav...id/961447/
EXCERPT: Top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday the coronavirus could become a seasonal threat unless it’s controlled across the globe. In an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health— and a member of the White House coronavirus response team — said it’s “unlikely” the virus will be eradicated.
“Unless we get this globally under control, there's a very good chance that it will assume a seasonal nature,” he said, explaining, “when we get it down to the point where it really is at a very low level, we need to be prepared that since it unlikely it will be completely eradicated from the planet, that as we get into next season, we may see the beginning of a resurgence.”
He said there is a push now to have preparedness for a next round, as well as for a vaccine and therapeutic interventions. “Hopefully if in fact we do see that resurgence, we will have interventions that we did not have in the beginning of the situation that we're in right now,” he said... (MORE)
VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-...il-5-2020/