Something missing in a lot of viral ecology / "stop pandemics at the source" work right now:
If you're not including flu in your schema for pandemic risk, you're not actually talking about pandemics. You're talking about general disease emergence, not pandemic preparedness.
If you're not including flu in your schema for pandemic risk, you're not actually talking about pandemics. You're talking about general disease emergence, not pandemic preparedness.
Before COVID-19, the answer to the question "what's the next pandemic most likely to be" was influenza. After COVID-19? It's actually still influenza believe it or not
So much of how we respond when a new virus emerges in a new pathway is to try to hyperfocus on sealing that entryway. But it's a bit like only locking the specific window a burglar came into your house through, and not checking the front door.
So the next time someone tells you "all we need to do to stop pandemics is treat the planet better," ask them what their plan is to deal with the 26 billion chickens on that planet
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