International task force finds COVID-19 origins 'most likely zoonotic' and warns of a failure to reduce animal-to-human transmission

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:31:56 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-11/covid-19-transmission-human-animal-transmission/101519434>

'Almost three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of international experts
says the world has still not dealt what it says is the "most likely" cause of
the virus: animal-to-human transmission.

The taskforce was created last year to assess available evidence on what drove
the origins and early spread of COVID-19 and provide "evidence-based
recommendations" to reduce the impact and improve responses to such outbreaks.

In the new report, released today, it found the world had "largely failed" to
meet the challenge to be better prepared to prevent or respond adequately
enough to the next pandemic.

The report says the world still doesn't have strategies for preventing zoonotic
transmission — animal-to-human virus spread — and, according to the experts,
this will only get worse with climate change and urban sprawl.'

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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