{"id":10052,"date":"2020-06-22T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","slug":"saving-forests-can-protect-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/22\/saving-forests-can-protect-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Forests Can Protect Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aside from claiming high numbers of victims, what do Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV\/AIDS), Ebola and COVID-19 have in common? The answer is that all three are zoonoses, the term given to an infectious disease caused by a pathogen that has jumped from animals to humans. Nearly three-quarters of recognized emerging infectious diseases (EID) are known to have originated from animals, generally from wildlife, and as the world has attempted to digest the profound implications of COVID-19 in recent months, much has been written about wet markets in China, thought to have been the starting point for significant human to human transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, strong evidence points to another connection \u2013 namely,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.globallandscapesforum.org\/43749\/glf-live-with-robert-nasi-and-annika-terrana\/\" target=\"_blank\">forest degradation and habitat loss<\/a>, or more specifically the way that nature is used to meet societal needs. Research has revealed that a small but significant percentage of emerging infectious diseases have a direct connection with forests; one study found that some 15 percent of approximately 250 EIDs analysed were linked with forests, with several of these, such as HIV\/AIDS and Ebola, related to high costs in terms of human lives.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.globallandscapesforum.org\/viewpoint\/saving-forests-can-protect-public-health\/\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from claiming high numbers of victims, what do Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV\/AIDS), Ebola and COVID-19 have in common? The answer is that all three are zoonoses, the term given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}