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The COVID-19 has ravaged the world changing the lives of millions and devastating economies across
the world. With actual infections reaching over half a million people, the focus has now shifted to the
role trade in wildlife contributes to such epidemics.

Just like COVID-19, other previous emergencies in the world can be directly traced to wildlife trade.
From HIV, to Ebola, Rift Valley fever, SARS, pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, yellow fever, avian influenza
(H5N1) and (H7N9), West Nile virus and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
reported in the recent past.

World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that globally, about one billion cases of illnesses and
millions of deaths occur every year from zoonosis.

Some 60% of emerging infectious diseases that are
reported globally are zoonosis.

Over 30 new human pathogens have been detected in the last three
decades, 75% of which have originated in animals.

Zoonotic diseases are as