Coronavirus: the boomerang effect of the degradation of biodiversity

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

HIV, Sras, Zika, Ebola, Coronavirus ... 60% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses and for several decades they have multiplied!

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In question: deforestation, industrial farming, intensification of agriculture, rapid transport over long distances of living organisms ... The coronavirus pandemic was predictable, how to limit the next?

Guests:
- Serge Morand, health ecologist, research director at CNRS and CIRAD and professor at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine in Bangkok
- Gaël Maganga , co-head of the Emergence of Viral Diseases Unit at the Interdisciplinary Center for Medical Research in Franceville, Gabon
- Jean-François Guégan, IRD / INRAE ​​research director specializing in the ecology of infectious and parasitic diseases
- Yann Laurans, director of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems program at IDDRI
- Jean-Michel Claverie , professor of Medicine at Aix-Marseille University and director of the Institute of Microbiology of the Mediterranean.

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