Climate change is increasing the likelihood of another pandemic, researchers warn

A woman and child walk past an informational mural portraying the global battle against the coronavirus, on a street in Kericho, Kenya.Climate change will drive animals towards cooler areas where their first encounters with other species will vastly increase the risk of new viruses infecting humans, raising the threat of another pandemic, researchers warned Thursday.

"This work provides us with more incontrovertible evidence that the coming decades will not only be hotter, but sicker," Dr Albery said. Likely hotspots include the Sahel, the Ethiopian highlands and the Rift Valley, India, eastern China, Indonesia, the Philippines and some European population centres, the study found.

Thousands of bats group together during hibernation in an artificial cave on Shikoku Island in Kochi, Japan.Bats are believed to already be on the move, and the study found they accounted for a large majority of potential first encounters with other mammals, mostly in Southeast Asia. But "surprisingly" their projections found that most first contacts would be between 2011 and 2040, steadily increasing from there.

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