ReviewMicrobial physiology2020
The Causal Relationship between Eating Animals and Viral Epidemics.
Review in Microbial physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Influence of a Vegan Diet on Child Health and Development: A Scoping Review.Nutrition reviews · 2026Article
- Nutritional, Ethical and Ecological Aspects of Cultured Meat with Particular Emphasis on Functional Food Production: A Comprehensive Literature Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The Potential of Plant-Based Lifestyle Interventions to Reduce the Burden of Disease in a Multi-Crisis Era.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2026Article
- Enhancing meat-type chicken performance throughArchives animal breeding · 2025Article
- Nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and practices among residents in the Northeast areas of China during the COVID-19 epidemic.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Insights in the Development and Uses of Alternatives to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry and Swine Production.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Eating Animal Products, a Common Cause of Human Diseases.Microbial physiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
For decades it has been known that infectious agents including pathogenic protozoans, bacteria, and viruses, adapted to a particular animal host, can mutate to gain the ability to infect another host, and the mechanisms involved have been studied in great detail. Although an infectious agent in one animal can alter its host range with relative ease, no example of a plant virus changing its host organism to an animal has been documented. One prevalent pathway for the transmission of infectious agents between hosts involves ingestion of the flesh of one organism by another. In this article we document numerous examples of viral and prion diseases transmitted by eating animals. We suggest that the occurrence of cross-species viral epidemics can be substantially reduced by shifting to a more vegetarian diet and enforcing stricter laws that ban the slaughter and trade of wild and endangered species.
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