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have spotted four types of animal-to-human infections which are spreading at an “exponential rate” – and could pose a major threat to global health by 2050.this small group of viruses could collectively kill 12 times more people in 2050 compared to the deaths recorded in 2020, at the height of
This group of specialists spotted a general pattern of increasingly larger and more frequent spillover epidemics, when infections move from animals to humans, through their research.However, they’re difficult to characterise because there is not enough historical data on the frequency and severity of the crossover infections., any disease outbreaks caused by a viral pathogen that killed 50 or more people, and historically significant outbreaks, like the flu pandemics of 1918 and 1957.
It was then that the scientists noted four viruses have been increasing by almost 5% and 9%, respectively, every year between 1963 and 2019, excluding the Covid pandemic.What does this mean for global health?“If these annual rates of increase continue, we would expect the analysed pathogens to cause four times the number of spillover events and 12 times the number of deaths in 2050 than in 2020.
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