Contagion Across Species: Global Histories and Ecologies of Zoonotic Diseases
Channel: Science Gallery Bengaluru
Date: 2021-06-10

Sunday, 06 June 2021 

Michael Bresalier 
Lecturer in the History of Medicine
Swansea University 

COVID-19 is a pandemic caused by a virus, SARS-CoV-2, that crossed from animals to humans. It has cast a sharp spotlight on the enormous challenges posed by “zoonoses”—those infections that move between animals and humans. A zoonotic event of this kind has been anticipated for many decades, and our current understandings and approaches are rooted in developments in framing zoonoses as both ecological and global problems over the last seventy years.

This talk, Michael Bresalier shares a historical perspective on some of the changing ways in which zoonoses have been framed and tackled as global problems connected to human interactions with animals, with changing environments, and with each other through globalised systems of animal food production and consumption.

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