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 # Environmental roots of the pandemic
 
 According to Epidemiologist Dennis Carroll, the ongoing research from EcoHealth Alliance, an organisation protecting wildlife and public health from the emergence of disease,[^0] shows that the last four decades have seen a two- to three-fold increase in zoonotic leaps of viruses from animals to humans.[^1] The increased incidence of epidemics such as Coronavirus is a consequence of, on the one hand, the rapid expansion of industrial agriculture and industrial farming into wildlife habitats and, on the other hand, the growing inclusion of wild species into capitalist commodity chains.[^2] It is the interface zones between the receding wildlife territories and encroaching farming that facilitate zoonotic leaps from wild animals to farm animals, with a particular contribution of the fruit bats.[^3] From there they spread to human populations. The leaps from industrially farmed animals such as pigs, fowl and dromedary camels to humans have been at the root of avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, H5N2 and H5Nx flue epidemics.