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Biodiversity loss and COVID-19 pandemic: The role of bats in the origin and the spreading of the disease.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 29 Jan 2021
Platto Sara, Zhou Jinfeng, Wang Yanqing, Wang Huo, Carafoli Ernesto
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The loss of biodiversity in the ecosystems has created the general conditions that have favored and, in fact, made possible, the insurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of factors have contributed to it: deforestation, changes in forest habitats, poorly regulated agricultural surfaces, mismanaged urban growth. They have altered the composition of wildlife communities, greatly increased the contacts of humans...
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