Loss of biodiversity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it promotes contact with pathogens that humans have never encountered before; on the other, it makes humans more susceptible to being profoundly affected by these new infectious micro-organisms.
生物多様性の喪失は、二重の影響をもたらします。それは一方で、人間がこれまで出会ったことのない病原体との接触を促進する一方、人間がこうした新しい感染性微生物から受ける影響をより大きくもするのです。ようするに、生物多様性の破壊は人間がより多くの微生物にさらされ、より脆弱になることを意味するのです。
Jeroen Douwes
Epidemiologist
Massey University, New Zealand
Serge Morand (ecologist, CNRS)
What an irony, we are simultaneously confronted with two new threats of pandemic diseases: that of transmissible infectious diseases due to new emerging pathogens and that of non-transmissible diseases due to the disappearance of pathogens from our living spaces.