A UP veterinarian said Filipinos' common encounters with animals in domestic, agricultural and wildlife settings pose potential risks for zoonotic disease transmission.
Months after the World Health Organization (WHO) identified COVID-19 as a pandemic, a team of virologists from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) was tasked to focus on a project to assess the pandemic potential of local animals.
AI, a “highly contagious viral disease,” infects several species of birds, according to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The virus causing it can be transmitted from bird to bird, bird to human and eventually spread to other humans.
