Pandemic-Proofing: Intercepting Zoonotic Spillover Events
Bharti Bhatia, Sudipta Sonar, Seema Khan, Jayanta Bhattacharya, Ricardo Pereira Igreja, Maria Cristina Schneider, Priscila Marques de Macedo · 2024
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Bharti Bhatia and co-authors review how to stop pandemics at the spillover point in a 2024 paper. Many pandemics begin when a virus jumps from animals to people. Blocking that jump, rather than chasing outbreaks later, could prevent the next crisis. The authors searched major databases for spillover events and responses from 1960 to 2024.
Drivers of spillover include habitat invasion, intensive farming, and wildlife trade, which raise human-animal contact. Climate change, fast travel, and weak health systems widen the damage. The huge variety of animal viruses and their rapid change make prediction hard. Proposed shields include wildlife surveillance, farm biosecurity, faster diagnostics, and land use that keeps people and reservoirs apart. The review frames spillover control as the cheapest pandemic defense.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bharti Bhatia, Sudipta Sonar, Seema Khan, Jayanta Bhattacharya, Ricardo Pereira Igreja, Maria Cristina Schneider, Priscila Marques de Macedo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |