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Tag: Amanda Fine

  • COVID-19 Wildlife Connection

    COVID-19 Wildlife Connection

    With new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) still being reported every day across the globe, we are starkly reminded that handling or coming into close contact with wildlife, their body parts, and excreta poses a risk of spillover of the pathogens [viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi] they host and maintain in nature, and to which we…

  • Wildlife Supply Chains for Human Consumption High In Coronaviruses

    Wildlife Supply Chains for Human Consumption High In Coronaviruses

    HA NOI (June, 2020) – A new study found that animals sampled in the wildlife-trade supply chain bound for human consumption had high proportions of coronaviruses, and that the proportion of positives significantly increases as animals travel from traders, to large markets, to restaurants. The study, which appears in the pre-print journal bioRxiv, is by a team of scientists…