coronavirus that causes Covid-19, is believed to have spread to humans at a wet market in Wuhan where livestock was kept and slaughtered in unhygienic conditions.
Since the outbreak scientists from around the world, including those working for the World Health Organisation, have warned that humanity is doomed to more and more pandemics in the future if we don't change agricultural practices.Environmentally damaging farming methods, such as battery caging or deforestation of animals' habitats, is forcing other species into increasingly close contact with human beings.This increases the risk of viruses spreading from animals to people, with the potential to create a devastating outbreak of the dreaded Disease X, the name for whatever harmful.
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