Summary: The wildlife trade affects a quarter of terrestrial vertebrates and creates opportunities for cross-species pathogen transmission, but its precise role in shaping animal-human pathogen exchange remains unclear. In our analysis of 40 years of global wildlife trade data, we show that traded mammals are 1.5-fold as likely to share pathogens with humans as nontraded mammals, and that illegal and live-animal trade further exacerbate pathogen sharing. Time spent in trade predicts the number of zoonotic pathogens that a wildlife species hosts. On average, a species shares an additional pathogen with humans for every 10 years it is traded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here some media posts about this paper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n UNIL<\/a>, New York Times<\/a>, Washington Post<\/a>, Scientific American<\/a>, Interesting Engineering<\/a>, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this new paper, our team has shown that the global wildlife trade increases animal-to-human pathogen transmission. Congrats to J\u00e9rome, Tristan and Matt\u00e9o, and of course our collaborators! Read it here. Summary: The wildlife trade affects a quarter of terrestrial vertebrates and creates opportunities for cross-species pathogen transmission, but its precise role in shaping animal-human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-and-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/files\/2026\/04\/image-1024x768.png\")