Wildlife Ranching during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
“Science has progressed tremendously with respect to understanding the epidemiology of disease, vaccine development technologies and the new screening for antiviral treatments.”
We are all living through something the severity of which we have never experienced before. There have, of course, been pandemics before, for example the plague or Black Death of the mid- 1300s, which is recorded as the most fatal pandemic in human history and resulted in between 75 and 200 million human deaths. At that time, the cause (rat- and flea-borne bacterium called Yersinia pestis) was unknown and there was no specific treatment. Modern medicine, especially the use of antibiotics, has completely removed the threat of the plague from modern society.
The beginnings of the modern industrial age with its aggregation of the people in
