A recent study published in the journal Science reveals that the longer a wildlife species has been traded in the global wildlife market, the more likely it is to share some type of pathogen with humans (bacteria, parasite, fungus, or virus). Animal-to-human transmission of pathogens increases the longer our association with traded wildlife species. For every ten years of shared history with a traded wildlife species, we share an additional pathogen. This study also fund that we share pathogens with approximately 41% of traded mammal species. This study can be found at: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw5518
