American historian Henry Adams, once wrote “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit”. Yet it is truly humankind’s bad habits that have placed us on the path towards ruin.
One potential source of our downfall is zoonoses (infectious diseases spread from animals to humans), which are becoming more prevalent as we encroach further into their natural ecosystems and impact entire ecosystems via climate change.
The COVID-19 pandemic shows just how serious these pathogens can be. And among wildlife, rodents are well known as dangerous reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens.
