Coronavirus: How environmental destruction influences the emergence of pandemics
“It’s been well known for the past 30, 40 years…that the greatest threat to humanity from a virology perspective is a pathogenic respiratory RNA virus,” said Marc-André Langlois, the Canadian Research Chair in molecular virology and intrinsic immunity, and a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Ottawa.
“If there’s one virus that will wipe out a large swatch of humanity, it would be this type of virus.”