JF

While disease is a historical fact of life, plague is a product of civilization. Pandemic diseases emerge through natural processes accelerated by human activity intentionally and by accident; the difference is of degree. Consider the emergences of SARS-1, ebola, HIV and H1N1.https://twitter.com/WhiteCoatWaste/status/1396147937806278657 …

Unfortunately, forensic epidemiology tends to bottom out before finding the first animal-human contact, be it in a lab, on a farm, at a slaughterhouse, or in a bushmeat market. The best thing we can do is enforce sanitary protocols based on updated risk assessments.