Bats, pangolin, humans: focus on the zoonoses and what they tell us about our relationship with nature

In its logbook “COVID-19: the latest news from around the world”, IFGR experts invite you this week to better understand what these diseases transmitted from animals to humans are and what they say about our relationship with nature.

For this second week, you can read the testimonies of :

• Mirdad Kazanji, Director of Pasteur Institute of French Guyana, who gives an update on the situation in this territory and explains why zoonoses, which are not recent diseases as evidenced by rabies, are increasingly frequent.

• Sun Yangbo, Director of International Cooperation of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (China), gives us the first lessons learned from this outbreak from China. As the country gradually resumes activity, he hopes that the Chinese experience can help countries currently affected by the epidemic to better cope with it.

The end of the COVID19 pandemic is not determined by the first few countries who contained the virus, but by the last few country who defeat the virus, only at that time we are all safe.

Find all these contributions on our dedicated space “Covid-19: latest news from around the world as seen by IFGR”.

Photo credit: Institut Pasteur of French Guiana

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