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Likelihood of Future Pandemics Report
November 7 , 2020
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- Recently IPBES has released a report on future pandemics.
- COVID-19 is at least the sixth pandemic to have taken place in the last century since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
- Three of the pandemics were caused by influenza viruses, one by HIV followed by SARS and COVID-19.
- Almost all the pandemics so far, have been zoonoses.
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem (IPBES) is an intergovernmental organization established to improve the interface between science and policy on issues of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
- In 2012, IPBES was established by the United Nations.
- But it functions independently.
- Its headquarters is at Bonn, Germany.
