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Covid-19 could be the tip of the zoonotic iceberg, thanks to how we live

Of all emerging diseases today, 75% result from animal to human spillover

11 July 2022 - 20:01

On the same day SA finally shed the last of its Covid regulations, the first monkeypox case was announced in the country, and by Monday, a third case was confirmed by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)...

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