Climate change could trigger a new pandemic A study showed that climate change could be the cause of a new pandemic. The temperature on our planet continues to rise, and all this will affect the migration of wild animals.

As global warming progresses, as scientists from Georgetown University predict, wild animals will change their habitats and get closer to humans.. And this greatly increases the likelihood of transmission of viruses from animals to humans.. Note that COVID-19, according to the general opinion of a number of authoritative studies, is the same virus that was transmitted from bats to humans through some as yet unidentified animal.. Most likely this happened at the wild animal meat market in the Chinese city of Wuhan..

Science has long been sounding the alarm about the possibility of a repeat of this scenario due to climate change.. You can also analyze previous outbreaks that did not turn out to be so massive, including SARS, Ebola and Zika viruses.. All of them show that pathogens can, as they say, jump from animals to humans, provoking serious consequences.. But to predict such jumps, you need to know how these viruses spread among animals..

A study by American scientists has shown that the migration of wild animals and the growth of connections between their different populations due to global warming can increase the number of viruses that spread between these animals.. First large-scale assessment of how climate change is structuring the global mammalian virome completed. It focuses on geographic range shifts - the habitats of different species - that are changing as a result of global warming..

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