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*How climate change drove emergence of more strains of coronavirus *COVID-19’s toll on jobs, businesses, food security in Nigeria, others exposed Experts in the health sector have blamed the leadership of the country for the continuous threat of infectious diseases ravaging the country. They stressed that the inability of the country to tackle the infectious diseases, ranging from cholera, Lassa fever, Ebola and the COVID-19, among other epidemics, rests on the lack of commitment on the part of the leadership to address issues affecting its containment by building institutions, development ...

Science of the Total Environment. The research provides the first evidence of a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that caused the yearlong coronavirus pandemic. According to the study’s findings, changes in vegetation due to warmer temperatures over the past century have prompted an additional forty bat species to move into the region, carrying with them a hundred more types of bat-borne coronaviruses. Currently, the world’s bat population carries roughly three thousand different types of coronavirus, with each bat...

Researchers found that warmer climates over the last century produced large forests where these mammals prefer to live, according to Fast Company. The study revealed that 40 bat species have moved into these areas, bringing with them 100 new types of coronaviruses...

"Climate change over the last century has made the habitat in the southern Chinese Yunnan province suitable for more bat species," researcher says

The first-ever evidence of a mechanism through which climate change could have had a direct role in the origin of SARS-CoV-2—the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic—has been offered by a new study.