Tag: globalisation

Food, globalisation and pandemics

Apr 13, 2020

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by

lauraspinney

in Environment, Evolution, Genetics, Journalism, Medicine

ONCE a dangerous new pathogen is out, as we are seeing, it can be difficult if not impossible to prevent it going global. One as contagious as SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to infect the whole of humanity. Eighty per cent of cases may be benign, but with such a large pool of susceptible hosts, the…