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The environment and animal behavior have changed as a result of climate change, bringing humans and wild animals closer together where there is a higher risk of contamination. More people are becoming susceptible to zoonotic diseases.

Zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 and monkeypox will become more common, experts say Researchers say diseases that spread between humans and animals will become increasingly commonplace as human expansion into previously uninhabited areas intensifies.

https://theconversation.com/one-health-why-we-need-to-combine-disease-surveillance-and-climate-modelling-to-preempt-future-pandemics-187923

One Health: why we need to combine disease surveillance and climate modelling to preempt future pandemics If surveillance focuses only on diseases that have already emerged, we’ll remain behind the curve. Better prediction of future pandemics will need to integrate animal, planetary and human health.

Congratulations to our Assistant Editors Asmi Maharjan and Sujita Nepal for being selected to present their poster at 8th National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal.