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Sentinels: When Diseases Spread Between Animals and Humans
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Humans have long observed animals for advanced warnings of danger. What can they tell us about the growing threat of viruses and other infectious organisms in the age of climate change?
Coronaviruses jump from bats to chimpanzees to humans. You can give your cat the flu, and pass tuberculosis to an elephant. The scientific term for this—zoonosis—is a word of the future, one that reveals how human and animal lives are inextricably linked. For scientists now warn that human destruction of the...
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