MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show June 4, 2024 01:33:00
Moment ago, it really follows a pattern that we've known for some time, that about 70% to 75% of all the new emerging infectious diseases are zoonottic. namely they jump from an animal species to a human. we saw that with hiv. we saw that with ebola. we see that with monkeypox. and we're seeing with this historic pandemic of covid-19, which almost certainly evolved the way sars cov 1 did from an animal reservoir such as a bat in the environment that jumped species. so if we really want to pay attention to how we can mitigate this, we have to pay much more attention to the animal/human interfac...