Preventing bat-born viral outbreaks in future using ecological interventions

Nabi, Ghulam; Siddique, Rabeea; Ali, Ashaq; Khan, Suliman

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109460

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“…Certain initial enquiries, such as that by Yuan et al (2020) , explored the link of the COVID-19 outbreak with the diet of wildlife in China and offered suggestions for regulating wildlife conservation and food security to prevent exposure of the virus to humans. As certain studies corroborate that bats are a natural reservoirs of COVID-19 ( Banerjee et al, 2020 ), articles in the field of environmental science offer concrete guidelines on how to monitor forest and environmental areas where humans and bats closely interact ( Nabi et al, 2020 ; Li et al, 2020 ).…”

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Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Casado‐Aranda

Sánchez‐Fernández

Viedma-del-Jesús

2021

Environmental Research

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The fight against COVID-19 since January 2020 has become the top priority of more than 200 countries. In order to offer solutions to eradicate this global pandemic, the scientific community has published hundreds of articles covering a wide range of areas of knowledge. With the aim of synthesizing these publications, academics are resorting to bibliometric analyses from the perspectives of the disciplines such as biology, medicine, socioeconomics and tourism. Yet no bibliometric analysis has explored the diffuse and little-known growth of COVID-19 scientific publications in the field of environmental studies. The current study is the first of this type to fill this research gap. It has resorted to SciMAT software to evaluate the main topics, authors and journals of publications on the subject of COVID-19 combined with environmental studies spanning the period between 1 December 2019 and 6 September 2020. The search yielded a collection of 440 articles published in scientific journals indexed on by Web of Science and Scopus databases. These publications can be broken down into six main themes: (i) a sharp reduction in air pollution and an improvement of the level of water pollution; (ii) the relationship of wind speed (positive), ultraviolet radiation (positive) and humidity (negative) with the rate of infections; (iii) the effect of the pandemic on the food supply chain and waste habits; (iv) wastewater monitoring offers a great potential as an early warning sign of COVID-19 transmission; (v) artificial intelligence and smart devices can be of great use in monitoring citizen mobilization; and (vi) the lessons gleaned from the pandemic that help define actions to mitigate climate change. The results of the current study therefore offer an agenda for future research and constitute a starting point for academics in the field of environmental studies to evaluate the effects of COVID-19.

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Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Casado‐Aranda

Sánchez‐Fernández

Viedma-del-Jesús

2021

Environmental Research

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“…Since the SARS outbreak in 2002/2003, broad scientific consensus exists that long term, structural changes, and wildlife trade and market closures will be required to prevent future epidemics ( 6 , 28 , 29 ). This mode of action is now also supported by intergovernmental organizations, such as the WHO, and international legal instruments, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity ( 29 ).…”

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COVID-19 and the Curse of Piecemeal Perspectives

Walzer

2020

Front. Vet. Sci.

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The world is in turmoil. A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has catapulted across the ever-evolving interface between humans and wild places relentlessly spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amongst humans and bringing immense suffering and death to the farthest reaches of our planet. What was immediately apparent was that the virus responsible for this outbreak originated in wild animals. A wildlife source does not come as a surprise as the majority of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic and two-thirds have their origin in wildlife. The commercial use of wildlife for consumption encompassing both legal and illegal trade is poorly regulated with porous boundaries between the two entities. This trade, particularly in live animals, creates super-interfaces along the food value chain co-mingling species from many different geographies and habitats while creating perfect conditions for the exchange and recombination of viruses. Since the SARS outbreak in 2002/2003, broad scientific consensus exists that long term, structural changes, and wildlife trade and market closures will be required to prevent future epidemics. The pragmatic, most cost-effective action governments can take with immediate effect is to ban the commercial trade of wild birds and mammals for consumption. Most importantly, this reduces the risk of future zoonotic transmission while also safeguarding resources for those Indigenous Peoples and local communities who rely on wild meat to meet their nutritional requirements.

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“…Wildlife trade also increases the human-wild life interface and increases human exposure to wildlife vectors, that increases the risks of EIDs as in COVID 19 [ 104 ] where bats were the reservoir of COVID-19 and to the pangolins that are suspected to have been the most probable intermediate host, in the same way that another coronavirus – the 2002 Sars outbreak – moved from horseshoe bats to cat-like civets before infecting humans [ 105 , 106 ]. Pangolins are reported to be the most trafficked animal in the world, especially in south-east Asia where they are an endangered species [ 105 , 107 ].…”

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What can we learn from previous pandemics to reduce the frequency of emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19?

2020

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The global risks report of 2020 stated, climate-related issues dominate all of the top-five long-term critical global risks burning the planet and according to the report, “as existing health risks resurge and new ones emerge, humanity's past successes in overcoming health challenges are no guarantee of future results.” Over the last few decades, the world has experienced several pandemic outbreaks of various pathogens and the frequency of the emergence of novel strains of infectious organisms has increased in recent decades. As per expert opinion, rapidly mutating viruses, emergence and re-emergence of epidemics with increasing frequencies, climate-sensitive vector-borne diseases are likely to be increasing over the years and the trends will continue and intensify. Susceptible disease hosts, anthropogenic activities and environmental changes contribute and trigger the ‘adaptive evolution’ of infectious agents to thrive and spread into different ecological niches and to adapt to new hosts. The overarching objective of this paper is to provide insight into the human actions which should be strictly regulated to help to sustain life on earth. To identify and categorize the triggering factors that contribute to disease ecology, especially repeated emergence of disease pandemics, a theory building approach, ‘Total Interpretive Structural Modeling’ (TISM) was used; also the tool, ‘Impact Matrix Cross-Reference Multiplication Applied to a Classification’ analysis (MICMAC) was applied to rank the risk factors based on their impacts on other factors and on the interdependence among them. This mathematical modeling tool clearly explains the strength, position and interconnectedness of each anthropogenic factor that contributes to the evolution of pathogens and to the frequent emergence of pandemics which needs to be addressed with immediate priority. As we are least prepared for another pandemic outbreak, significant policy attention must be focused on the causative factors to limit emerging outbreaks like COVID 19 in the future.

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Preventing bat-born viral outbreaks in future using ecological interventions

Cited by 31 publications

References 13 publications

Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

COVID-19 and the Curse of Piecemeal Perspectives

What can we learn from previous pandemics to reduce the frequency of emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19?

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