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Solutions for preventing the next pandemic

07/23/2020 | Science

The cost of preventing the side by side pandemic is 2% of the cost nosotros're paying for COVID-xix.

A written report published in Scientific discipline, "Environmental and Economics for Pandemic Prevention," institute that the costs of preventing future zoonotic outbreaks like COVID-19—by preventing deforestation and regulating the wildlife trade—are as petty every bit $22 billion a yr, ii% of the economic and mortality costs of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, which some economists predict could reach $x-twenty trillion. The paper, co-authored past our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein, outlines how stimulus funding should be used to reduce the risk of illness spillover from animals to humans.

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Connections between deforestation, wildlife trade, and the rising of infectious diseases

    • Over the terminal 100 years, 2 viruses a yr spillover from animals to humans.
    • Locations near the edges of tropical forests where more than than 25% of the original forest has been lost tend to exist hotbeds for animal-to-human virus transmissions.
    • Wild fauna markets and the legal and illegal merchandise of wildlife for pets, meat or medicine increase manual.
    • Investing $22-31 billion a year to monitor and police force the wildlife merchandise and curb tropical deforestation can help forbid future pandemics.

Strategies

    • Remove subsidies favoring deforestation, restrict private land immigration, support territorial rights of Indigenous people
    • Strengthen and enforce the existing international conventions and increase funding for programs that monitor wildlife trade
    • Ban national and international merchandise of high-chance species like primates, bats, pangolins, civets, and rodents
    • Increase educational activity, awareness on animate being handling, sanitation, disease manual and sustainable wild animals management and support for Indigenous people who rely on wildlife for nutrient

Toll-Effective Solutions

    • Spend $500 million a yr to expand and enhance wildlife-trade monitoring programs and technologies.
    • Invest $217-279 million a year on early detection and control measures, including creating a library of virus genetics that could be used to pinpoint the source of a newly emerging pathogen early enough to tiresome or stop its spread.
    • Invest over $19 billion a twelvemonth on programs to end the wild meat trade in China and brainwash consumers and hunters about its potential risks.
    • Invest upwardly to $9.six billion a year on programs and policies to reduce tropical deforestation by 50%.
    • Spend up to $852 million a twelvemonth to reduce viral spillovers, or inter-species transmissions, in livestock.

Co-authors hail from Conservation International; the University of California-Santa Barbara; Boston University; Arizona Land University; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Harvard University; Earth Innovation Establish; EcoHealth Alliance; the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Globe Wildlife Fund International. Knuckles Kunshan University; Rice Academy; George Mason University; the Safina Center; and Federal Academy of Rio de Janeiro.

Citation: "Environmental and Economics for Pandemic Prevention," Andrew P. Dobson, Stuart Pimm, Lee Hannah, Les Kaufman, Jorge A. Ahumada, Amy West. Ando, Aaron Bernstein, Jonah Busch, Peter Daszak, Jens Engelmann, Margaret Kinnaird, Binbin Li, Ted Loch-Temzelides, Thomas Lovejoy, Katarzyna Nowak, Patrick Roehrdanz,and Mariana M. Vale; Scientific discipline, July 24, 2020. DOI: ten.1126/science.abc3189

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Aaron examines the human wellness effects of global environmental changes with the aim of promoting a deeper understanding of these subjects among students, educators, policy makers, and the public.

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