ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications2021
Biodiversity loss and COVID-19 pandemic: The role of bats in the origin and the spreading of the disease.
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- Relationships between Green Space Attendance, Perceived Crowdedness, Perceived Beauty and Prosocial Behavior in Time of Health Crisis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Rodent-Human Interface: Behavioral Risk Factors and Leptospirosis in a Province in the Central Region of Thailand.Veterinary sciences · 2022Article
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- Self-Focused and Other-Focused Health Concerns as Predictors of the Uptake of Corona Contact Tracing Apps: Empirical Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Infectious disease, the climate, and the future.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021Article
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- COVID-19 Spotlights Connections between Disease and Multiple Lifestyle Factors.American journal of lifestyle medicineReview
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The loss of biodiversity in the ecosystems has created the general conditions that have favored and, in fact, made possible, the insurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of factors have contributed to it: deforestation, changes in forest habitats, poorly regulated agricultural surfaces, mismanaged urban growth. They have altered the composition of wildlife communities, greatly increased the contacts of humans with wildlife, and altered niches that harbor pathogens, increasing their chances to come in contact with humans. Among the wildlife, bats have adapted easily to anthropized environments such as houses, barns, cultivated fields, orchards, where they found the suitable ecosystem to prosper. Bats are major hosts for αCoV and βCoV: evolution has shaped their peculiar physiology and their immune system in a way that makes them resistant to viral pathogens that would instead successfully attack other species, including humans. In time, the coronaviruses that bats host as reservoirs have undergone recombination and other modifications that have increased their ability for inter-species transmission: one modification of particular importance has been the development of the ability to use ACE2 as a receptor in host cells. This particular development in CoVs has been responsible for the serious outbreaks in the last two decades, and for the present COVID-19 pandemic.
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