Emerging infectious diseases expose gaps in UN’s SDG framework

CORRESPONDENCE 05 July 2022 Emerging infectious diseases expose gaps in UN’s SDG framework By Tong Wu ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5467-20940 Tong Wu Stanford University, Stanford,

California, USA.

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Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe A lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that prevention should focus on mitigating zoonotic-disease spillovers (N. M.

Vora et al. Nature 605, 419–422; 2022). Such actions include environmental-protection measures that would dovetail with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But those

were set up in 2015, and make no mention of the risks of diseases that can be transmitted from animals to people. These need to be urgently incorporated into the global sustainability

agenda.

Nature 607, 32 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01825-6

The author declares no competing interests.

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