00:03you've no doubt heard of bird flu and swine flu but despite animals often being the primary vectors
00:09for disease they're not the biggest spreaders that's according to a new viral genome study
00:14which found that humans pose a far bigger threat to the animal kingdom than it does to us researchers
00:20looked at 32 viral families that infected humans looking specifically at a virus's ability to move
00:25from species to species with the study's authors finding that in 64 of all of the viruses studied
00:31they noted a leap from a human to another species this is called an enterpanotic infection and experts
00:37say a human to animal viral jump is not that unexpected with one of the study's authors
00:42geneticist cedric tan telling new scientist our population size is huge and our global distribution
00:48is basically everywhere but it's not just our distribution but also the stress human civilization
00:53already puts on the wildlife immediately around us human cities mean urban sprawl which
00:58includes not only animal habitat destruction but also pollution from industry and noise pollution
01:03from vehicles and even our own voices experts say this all contributes to the overall susceptibility
01:09to infection of the animals around us with very little research going into identifying let alone
01:14the animals around us with very little research on curing such ailments
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