“Emerging infectious diseases, the majority of which are zoonotic and have their origin in wildlife, have been increasing significantly — both numbers of outbreaks and diversity of diseases — over the past 50 years,” said Dr. Christian Walzer, veterinarian and Executive Director of Wildlife Conservation Society' Health Program in this Huffington Post article.
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