Africa: FAO - Animal to Human Disease More Likely

About 70 percent of the new diseases that have infected humans in recent decades have come from animals. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warns it's getting easier for diseases to make that jump as the population and food-supply chains grow.

Listen to De Capua report on animal disease threat to humans

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