Category: COVID-19

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The WHO Pandemic Accord: One Health, indigenous peoples, local communities and developing nations

The WHO Pandemic Accord: One Health, indigenous peoples, local communities and developing nations (These comments were developed in collaboration with IWMC-World Conservation Trust) Background Given the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization's 194 Member States initiated a process aimed at crafting a new convention, agreement, or similar international mechanism (hereinafter referred to …

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The Pandemic Instrument of the World Health Organization

The Pandemic Instrument of the World Health Organization Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic has put the world to a hold. Not only did international travelling become extremely difficult, also domestic businesses and, in fact, life in general became marked be restrictions, face masks and corona tests. And eventually, vaccines proved to be the cure against these …

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The blurry role of pangolins in the COVID-19 pandemic – An update to ‘International wildlife trade and the COVID-19 pandemic’

Introduction In my post from 23 December 2021, I presented data that link the current COVID-19 pandemic with pangolins. I wrote that one of the 'candidates' that may served as a host for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to jump from bats to humans may have been Malayian pangolins (Manis javanica) also due to their closer proximity …

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