https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uoe-tpc111320.php
News Release 17-Nov-2020
University of Exeter
Conservation of tropical peatlands could reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the likelihood of new diseases jumping from animals to humans, researchers say.
The scientists reviewed existing evidence and concluded the high biodiversity in tropical peat-swamp forests, combined with habitat destruction and wildlife harvesting, created "suitable conditions" for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that could jump to humans.
COVID-19 did not emerge in a tropical peatland area - but HIV/AIDS and the joint-first case of Ebola both originated in areas with extensive peatlands.
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