{"id":6155,"date":"2024-03-26T20:45:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:45:42","slug":"how-do-we-halt-the-next-pandemic-be-kind-to-critters-like-bats-says-a-new-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/26\/how-do-we-halt-the-next-pandemic-be-kind-to-critters-like-bats-says-a-new-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we halt the next pandemic? Be kind to critters like bats, says a new paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2024\/03\/26\/1240779167\/how-do-we-halt-the-next-pandemic-be-kind-to-critters-like-bats-says-a-new-paper\">NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost every pandemic we&#8217;ve seen over the last century has come from a virus that&#8217;s spilled over into humans from an animal. &#8220;Generally, pandemics are seen as a biomedical problem,&#8221; says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plowrightlab.org\/\">Raina Plowright<\/a>, an infectious disease ecologist at Cornell University. &#8220;Certainly, once the pandemic is underway, it is a biomedical problem because you need to have vaccines, you need therapeutics, you need testing,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But the genesis of the pandemic is actually an ecological problem,&#8221; says Plowright. That is, it&#8217;s due to the complex interactions between wildlife, habitat, climate and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s been relatively little discussion about a spillover&#8217;s ecological origins and how to stop it from happening in the first place. Plowright found only four publications on how the coronavirus circulates in natural bat populations. That&#8217;s compared to the tens of thousands of research articles she&#8217;s pulled up on the coronavirus spike protein, which has been the focus of vaccines and efforts to understand how the virus enters and infects our cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2024\/03\/26\/1240779167\/how-do-we-halt-the-next-pandemic-be-kind-to-critters-like-bats-says-a-new-paper\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Almost every pandemic we&#8217;ve seen over the last century has come from a virus that&#8217;s spilled over into humans from an animal. &#8220;Generally, pandemics are seen as a biomedical problem,&#8221; says&nbsp;Raina Plowright, an infectious disease ecologist at Cornell University. &#8220;Certainly, once the pandemic is underway, it is a biomedical problem because you need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}