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Animal Contact and Environmental Destruction: The Contagion Threat to Humanity

  • Ishi HiroyukiEnvironmental journalist and scientist. After a stint on the Asahi Shimbun editorial board, served as a senior consultant to the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi and Bangkok. Other positions include professorships at the University of Tokyo and Hokkaidō University and Japanese ambassador to Zambia. His works include Chikyū kankyō hōkoku (Global Environmental Report) and Watashi no chikyū henreki—Kankyō hakai no genba o motomete (My World Travels in Search of Environmental Destruction). Author of the Nippon.com series “Remarkable Recovery: The Modern History of Japan’s Environment.”

    Ishi HiroyukiEnvironmental journalist and scientist. After a stint on the Asahi Shimbun editorial board, served as a senior consultant to the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi and Bangkok. Other positions include professorships at the University of Tokyo and Hokkaidō University and Japanese ambassador to Zambia. His works include Chikyū kankyō hōkoku (Global Environmental Report) and Watashi no chikyū henreki—Kankyō hakai no genba o motomete (My World Travels in Search of Environmental Destruction). Author of the Nippon.com series “Remarkable Recovery: The Modern History of Japan’s Environment.”

  • The English physician John Snow, who clarified that contaminated drinking water was the source of cholera. (From the collection of the United States National Library of Medicine)

    The English physician John Snow, who clarified that contaminated drinking water was the source of cholera. (From the collection of the United States National Library of Medicine)

  • The Diamond Princess cruise ship, which saw a mass outbreak of COVID-19, docked at Daikoku Pier in Yokohama on February 12, 2020. (© Jiji)

    The Diamond Princess cruise ship, which saw a mass outbreak of COVID-19, docked at Daikoku Pier in Yokohama on February 12, 2020. (© Jiji)

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