“You can only prevent future pandemics by protecting ecosystems and maintaining species diversity."
Rabies, ebola, bird flu, monkeypox, coronavirus — all dangerous viruses. And each virus jumped from living animals to humans in order to start its destructive work. The origin of such viruses is found particularly frequently in bats.
For many years, Isabella Eckerle has researched the relationship between viruses, wild animals and humans. As an expert on new pathogens, she gives a fascinating insight into her work in the lab and the African jungle. And she investigates controversial issues, such as what role the human-animal relationship, climate change and species extinction play in the future of global health. Her summary gives us hope: humans have it in their control whether an animal virus becomes a pandemic.
“One of the leading German scientists in the fight against coronavirus.” Kölner Express
