Gupta Saloni, Rouse Barry T, Sarangi Pranita P
Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Dec 8;8:769208. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.769208. eCollection 2021.
The human race has survived many epidemics and pandemics that have emerged and reemerged throughout history. The novel coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 is the latest pandemic and this has caused major health and socioeconomic problems in almost all communities of the world. The origin of the virus is still in dispute but most likely, the virus emerged from the bats and also may involve an intermediate host before affecting humans. Several other factors also may have affected the emergence and outcome of the infection but in this review, we make a case for a possible role of climate change. The rise in industrialization-related human activities has created a marked imbalance in the homeostasis of environmental factors such as temperature and other weather and these might even have imposed conditions for the emergence of future coronavirus cycles. An attempt is made in this review to explore the effect of ongoing climate changes and discuss if these changes had a role in facilitating the emergence, transmission, and even the expression of the COVID-19 pandemic. We surmise that pandemics will be more frequent in the future and more severely impactful unless climate changes are mitigated.
人类在历史上出现并反复出现的许多流行病和大流行中幸存了下来。新型冠状病毒严重急性呼吸综合征SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19是最新的大流行，这在世界几乎所有社区都造成了重大的健康和社会经济问题。病毒的起源仍有争议，但很可能该病毒起源于蝙蝠，并且在感染人类之前可能还涉及中间宿主。其他几个因素也可能影响了感染的出现和结果，但在本综述中，我们提出气候变化可能发挥的作用。与工业化相关的人类活动增加，导致温度和其他天气等环境因素的稳态出现明显失衡，这些甚至可能为未来冠状病毒周期的出现创造了条件。本综述试图探讨当前气候变化的影响，并讨论这些变化是否在促进COVID-19大流行的出现、传播甚至表现方面发挥了作用。我们推测，除非缓解气候变化，否则未来大流行将更加频繁，影响也将更加严重。
