How Protecting Wildlife Can Help to Prevent Pandemics

Living Earth Collaborative Seminar featuring David Wang: Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Pathology & Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine; Lisa Kelley: Director of Saint Louis Zoo, WildCare Institute; Sharon Deem: Director of Saint Louis Zoo, Institute for Conservation Medicine

As the coronavirus pandemic illustrates, the fate of humanity and nature are inextricably linked. COVID-19 is just the latest of several zoonotic diseases to emerge in recent decades as a result of detrimental human-induced environmental changes to the planet, and if we don't change the way we treat nature, it won't be the last. Join our discussion with leading Saint Louis scientists to understand how diseases arise in nature and jump to humans, and what we can do to keep it from happening again. Register for virtual seminar