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Before moving forward to our main topic,one interesting fact, perhaps you know about it's, Bats are  the only mammals that can fly (without plane). Zoonotic viruses • Zoonotic disease :is an  infectious disease  caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that spread from non-human animals (usually  vertebrates ) to humans. •BATS AND THEIR ROLE IN ECOLOGY: The remarkable mammals known as “bats” and “flying foxes”  may be the most abundant, diverse, and geographically dispersed vertebrates . Although a great deal is known about them, detailed information is needed to explain the astonishing variations of their anatomy, their lifestyles, their roles in ecosystems ecology, and their importance as reservoir hosts of viruses of proven or potential significance for human and veterinary health. Bats fly with wings which range in span from 130 mm to 2 m. Bats of various species feed on insects, mammals, fish, blood, fruit, and pollen. Bats of most species echolocate ...

What does it mean to be a super spreader? A "super spreader" is a generic term that means someone will disproportionately infect a large number of people with a virus,In other words, super spreaders spread a virus more efficiently than the average person. What qualifies as a super spreader varies depending upon the virus or disease and its usual infection rate. For example, during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, one index case was likely to directly infect 2.75 other people (known as the R-0 number), while a " SUPER SPREADER " was classified as someone who directly infected 10 or more other people. With coronavirus, experts believe an index case is likely to directly infect 1.5 to 3.5 other people, however it is unclear what the super spreader threshold is.Some of them are related to biology, A person may produce more of a virus or get infected with a strain that spreads more easily or rapidly, and therefore infect more people. ...

Epidemics, on the other hand, are often societal or political — much like  famines are usually man-made , even though droughts occur naturally. As far as the current outbreak goes, two cultural factors help explain how the natural occurrence of a single virus infecting a single mammal could have cascaded into a global health crisis.   A cultural factor behind the epidemic are traditional Chinese beliefs about the powers of certain foods, which have encouraged some hazardous habits. There is, in particular, the aspect of Chinese eating culture known as “ jinbu ,”  meaning, roughly, to fill the void. Some of its practices are folklorish or esoteric, but even among Chinese people who don’t follow them, the concept is pervasive. It is better to cure a disease with food than medicine, so starts the holistic theory. Illnesses result when the body is depleted of blood and energy — though not the kind of blood and energy studied in biology and physics, but a mystic version. For m...

Over a period of 12,000 years, humans have gone from living in a lush and verdant “garden of eden” to the advent of technological changes which has led to negative, as well as positive impact on our planet When the Scottish engineer James Watt, invented the steam machine in the late 18 th  century, he unintentionally marked our days on this Blue planet. Some call this transition  the Anthropocene . A new geological time period in which we, humans, have altered earth’s natural cycles drastically.  Gas emissions began to skyrocket, natural resources started to deplete and people began to make more babies. As you can imagine, the African continent has not been spared by this trend. The wildlife-filled tropical forests in the heart of Africa, as often depicted by the National Geographic, are now gone. Green forests are now becoming green deserts. This change is a result of the current  bushmeat crisis  which is being driven by changing eating practices among city dw...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organisation. Founded in 1948, today IUCN the largest professional global conservation network. IUCN has more than 1,200 member organizations including 200+ government and 900+ non-government organizations. The Union’s headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland. More about IUCN What does IUCN do? How does IUCN work? IUCN Red Data Book : Threatened Species classification Critically Endangered Species Endangered (EN) species Vulnerable (VU) species Other divisions: Extinct, Functionally Extinct and Extinct in the wild Reasons for species extinction Status of Plants and Animals : 2012 list List of Extinct Plants in India Critically Endangered Animal Species of India More about IUCN Governance by a Council elected by member organizations every four years at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Funded by governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, f...