Unless there is a radical change in the global approach to infectious diseases, future pandemics will occur more often, spread faster, cause more damage to the global economy and kill more people, according to the report on biodiversity and pandemics released on Thursday 29 October by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
But experts also point out that escaping the pandemic era is possible with a prevention-based approach, with much lower economic...