Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN

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Date of Publication: July 6

Year of Publication: 2020

Publication City: London, UK

Publisher: Guardian News and Media Limited

Author(s): Damian Carrington

Newspaper: The Guardian

Ongoing destruction of nature will result in stream of animal diseases jumping to humans, says report.

The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the environmental cause, according to the authors of a UN report. As a result, a steady stream of diseases can be expected to jump from animals to humans in coming years, they say.

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