Robert Mwinyihali is the Wildlife Conservation Society's Central Africa urban bushmeat coordinator, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Nineteen outbreaks of Ebola have erupted across Central Africa since 1976. We should substantially expand already successful wildlife disease surveillance and public health awareness efforts in rural areas. They can also be scaled up in other places besides Central Africa. For Central Africa, a good place to start might be planning to calculate 2% of the economic losses suffered as a result of Covid-19 and spend that much on prevention.

Source: CNN July 28, 2020 18:56 UTC