Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic – but what does that cost?

In a recent journal article, a team of biologists, medical scientists, environmental scientists and conservationists proposed a number of measures to reduce the likelihood of future pandemics, many of which originate with wild animals such as bats. They argue that spending billions of dollars per year—a fraction of the cost of pandemics—on programs that reduce deforestation would curtail wildlife trade and support the communities that live on the forests' edge.

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