id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-282965-xguotf4m O’Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina COVID-19: The Disease of the Anthropocene 2020-05-15 .txt text/plain 1585 66 47 Since the emergence of AIDS, many other epidemic infectious diseases, such as Ebola, SARS and MERS to name the most recent, have been caused by the transmission of viruses from wild animal species to humans as shown in 2008 by Jones et al. The complete causal sequences and impacts of these ecological changes are still poorly understood, but frequently these emerging zoonosis appear and spread in circumstances that denote the effects of an economic and commercial practices that destroys natural habitats and animal populations, including those of humans living there, in the absence of effective protection and regulatory policies. The destruction of natural habitats and the extinction of species, the poorly regulated capture, marketing and consumption of non-human animals, the influence of lobbies to nullify or delay measures to protect natural and social systems, the limitation of current scientific knowledge and the contempt by governments and companies of the available evidence, have all worked in an orchestrated sequence to facilitate the current COVID-19 pandemic. ./cache/cord-282965-xguotf4m.txt ./txt/cord-282965-xguotf4m.txt