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Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Threats To Prevent Future Pandemics: A Critical Analysis Of Policy Favoring The Closures Of Wildlife Markets In Latin America, Melany J. Danielson Feb 2023

Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Threats To Prevent Future Pandemics: A Critical Analysis Of Policy Favoring The Closures Of Wildlife Markets In Latin America, Melany J. Danielson

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

The Preventing Future Pandemics Act was introduced to mitigate zoonotic disease threats around the world by focusing policy efforts on the closure of wildlife markets that gave rise to COVID–19. This Note challenges the efficacy of wildlife market closure policy by considering cultural, socioeconomic, and legal factors for the existence of wildlife market within megadiverse countries in Latin America. Based on scientific research on the animal-to-human interface and zoonotic disease transmission, this Note suggests effective policy should incorporate a targeted species ban for reservoir species, improved sanitary measures and disease surveillance, and wildlife trafficking prevention. Ultimately, this Note calls for …


Brazil’S Zika Epidemic And Its Effects On The Criminalization Of Abortion, Laura M. Monteiro May 2018

Brazil’S Zika Epidemic And Its Effects On The Criminalization Of Abortion, Laura M. Monteiro

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Will The Zika Virus Enable A Transplant Of Roe V. Wade To Brazil?, Amanda Greenberg Jan 2018

Will The Zika Virus Enable A Transplant Of Roe V. Wade To Brazil?, Amanda Greenberg

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.