id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-337646-gkcm6ds0 nan The Federation’s Pages: WFPHA: World Federation of Public Health Associations www.wfpha.org Bettina Borisch and Marta Lomazzi, Federation’s Pages Editors 2020-09-17 .txt text/plain 2529 140 45 The next coronavirus to generate a global public health crisis was the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) that emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012 among people working closely with camels. During the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), held on 30 January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was underway. The association between Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) and environmental destruction is widely recognized: deforestation destroys natural habitats, increases the density of remaining wild animal populations, increases their movements to look for food accompanied by the probability of human contact-all induce stress that impairs immune systems and increases viral shedding [16] . Environment preservation is urgent for many reasons: conservation of biodiversity, the fight against climate change, reduction of air, water and food pollution, and improvement of human health and quality of life [18] . ./cache/cord-337646-gkcm6ds0.txt ./txt/cord-337646-gkcm6ds0.txt