Zoonotic Disease Trend: According to the report of the World Organization for Animal Health, 60 percent of the infections in humans are zoonotic. These diseases affect different parts of the body.
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in japan bird flu 1.7 lakh chickens were killed in the poultry farm in view of the growing menace. Its danger is increasing in many countries of the world. Coronavirus cases are increasing in India. The speed of its cases has doubled in Maharashtra and Delhi. Both these diseases are such that they reached humans through animals. bird flu in the last few years, Corona, nipah virusCases of many diseases like Ebola have increased which reached from animals to humans.
In science, these diseases are called zoonosis. Zoonosis means the process in which the disease reached humans from animals. The main causes of these diseases (zoonotic) are bacteria, viruses and parasites. In such a situation, there is a question that why diseases spread by animals in humans are increasing and increasing the risk of new epidemics.
60 percent of diseases are zoonotic
According to the report of the World Organization for Animal Health, 60 percent of the infections in humans are zoonotic. These diseases affect different parts of the body. For example, salmonellosis affects the human digestive system. Avian, swine flu and covid leave an effect on the respiratory and nervous systems.
Why the risk of diseases is increasing from animals, understand in 5 points
- Increasing number of passengers in air travel: Experts say, such diseases have existed since thousands of years ago, but in the last 20 to 30 years, the risk of their increasing rapidly has increased. Scientists consider many reasons for this. For example, due to the increase in the number of travelers at the international level, the risk of spreading such diseases increases rapidly.
- Damage to the ecosystem of animals: Human interference in forests has increased in the last few decades. Due to the increasing population, the scope of forests has increased to increase the scope of housing. Because of this, wild animals have started reaching the human population. The danger which was earlier confined to the forest is now reaching humans.
- Animal trade: Industrial farming is increasing on a large scale in the world. Due to this the pathogen is reaching the animals. Apart from this, the growing animal trade in the world is helping bacteria and viruses to spread. Infected animals reaching from one country to another are increasing the dangers. The same happened in the case of COVID.
- Spread of infection in birds: Increasing infection in birds is also becoming the reason for the spread of disease in humans. For example, Nipah virus was spread through bats in Kerala. It was told that infected bats scavenge sweet fruits. When a person eats that fruit, the infection reaches them.
- Growing trend of non-veg diet abroad: There are many countries in the world where the trend of non-veg diet is increasing. Like China. Here the trend of eating raw non-veg instead of cooking it completely is increasing. Already many experts have expressed the danger of spreading the infection of bacteria and virus through it.
Climate change threatens another pandemic
Research published in the journal Nature in 2022 has claimed that climate change can promote new epidemics. According to the report of Journal Science, there are 17 lakh such unknown viruses which are still present in animals and birds. Of this, 540,000 to 850,000 have the ability to infect humans.Experts say, the way human interference in forests is increasing, the risk of such diseases will also increase in future.
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