Preventing pandemics by leaving bats undisturbed
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 10:33
in Biology & Nature
As the COVID-19 pandemic slowly subsides, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) experts and colleagues from the Wildlife Conservation Society have partnered on a new analysis in The Lancet Planetary Health journal focused on how such surges in deaths, illness, and suffering—as well as their economic costs—can be prevented in the future. One basic solution, the authors argue, may lie in a global taboo against harming or disturbing bats and their habitats.