2024-03-21 08:31:00
Ilaria Capua: “Covid? Anyone who thinks it is defeated is wrong. The virus is still here with us”
Ilaria Capua sends a rather alarming message to the world. There virologist world famous talks about pandemic calling them a “cyclical phenomenon“. And quoting l’Oms reveals: “We don’t know when or even what, but there will be one”disease X“, it is – Capua tells Il Messaggero – one new pandemic and it could be even more aggressive than Covid“. Capua, who spent seven years in the United States directing the One Health Center in Florida, parals the imminent risk of another epidemic. “I’m sorry to say it, but it’s not that because we had the one from Covid we’re good for the next two hundred years“.
“Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that – says Capua – the “disease something, sooner or later, will come“. The virologist warns about the risk of transmission of pathogens through direct contact between humans and animals, particularly present in places with poor hygiene, such as live animal markets. He adds: “We need a response capacity to these emergencies that is reasoned, aware and studied also on the basis of the territory.” Capua also returns to Covid: “What’s left positive from the pandemic experience? Certainly an awareness of vulnerability. This is good. However, I would like to see more attention in implementing behaviors that are preventive for contagion from any pathogen. The Covid virus is still here with us“.
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