ranjan

The health of all life on the planet is connected. The Covid 19 outbreak starkly reminds us of a basic fact that cannot be ignored.A multidisciplinary approach integrating and funding experts in animal, ecosystem and human health is urgently needed. Ignorance concerning coronavirus abounds. Benjamin Franklin advised in 1736 that " An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". Viruses that inhabit wild animals can infect domesticated animals, and similarly live stock diseases can decimate the last wildlife population. Large proportions of the world still fail to implement global sanitary standards in livestock production and trade in animals and their products. Large scale urban consumption of wildlife knows no standards and can never be considered sanitary and safe. Humans everywhere are at risk. Waiting to act until a disease infects a human is too late.      In a mere four months, the world has been brought down to its knees by a previously unknown virus. But Covid