環境破壊が進むとコロナより危険な伝染病が流行することも考えられると専門家は指摘する。
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Pandemics will emerge more often, spread faster, cost more and kill more people than Covid-19 without bold action to halt the habitat destruction that helps viruses hop from wildlife to humans, according to a study published on Thursday.
halt the habitat destructionは「生息地破壊を食い止める」
hop from wildlife to humansで「野生生物から人へ飛び移る」
“It turns out that by doing something about pandemics we are also doing something about climate change and biodiversity, and that’s a good thing,” Peter Daszak, a zoologist who chaired the study by 22 international experts, told Reuters.
biodiversityは「生物の多種多様性」