After Covid-19 and monkeypox, more animal disease threats to come, warn experts | South China Morning Post

With the spread of monkeypox across the world coming hot on the heels of Covid-19, there are fears that increasing outbreaks of diseases that jump from animals to humans could spark another pandemic. While such diseases - called zoonoses - have been around for millennia, they have become more common in recent decades due to deforestation, mass livestock cultivation, climate change and other human-induced upheavals of the animal world, experts say. Other diseases to leap from animals to humans include HIV, Ebola, Zika, Sars, Mers, bird flu and the bubonic plague. The World Health Organization said on Thursday that it…