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Climate change will force new animal encounters — and boost viral outbreaks

Modelling study is first to project how global warming will increase virus swapping between species.
  1. Natasha Gilbert
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Over the next 50 years, climate change could drive more than 15,000 new cases of mammals transmitting viruses to other mammals, according to a study published in Nature1. It’s one of the first to predict how global warming will shift wildlife habitats and increase encounters between species capable of swapping pathogens, and to quantify how many times viruses are expected to jump between species.

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Nature 605, 20 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01198-w

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  1. Carlson, C. J. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04788-w (2022).

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