New Delhi: The number of zoonotic virus outbreaks has been increasing since 2000, with Nipah, SARS, Swine Flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika and the Covid-19 pandemics breaking out. In the future, with increasing deforestation, such zoonotic spillovers are only expected to increase. In the first initiative of its kind, India has embarked on an ambitious, inter-ministerial study aimed at detecting zoonotic diseases, focusing on the critical intersection of h…
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