Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Many of us are feeling helpless in the face of the current pandemic,

but the good news is there are things we can do right now to reduce our risk of falling seriously ill and dying from COVID-19

and preventing even greater infectious disease threats in the future.

In our first story, look at the role at wet markets, wildlife trafficking, and

penguins have played in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.

A review published in the December 2019 issue of the Journal of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America concluded

the SARS epidemic demonstrated that novel highly pathogenic, highly disease-causing viruses crossing the animal human barrier,

remain a major threat to global health security.

Little did the authors know that by the date of publication, just such a virus was brewing.

It will not be surprising if new coronaviruses emerge in the near future,

read another a few months before, it is highly likely that future SARS or

merged like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats,

and there's an increased probability that this will occur in China.

These warnings aren't new, dating back more than a decade.

The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses in bats together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China is a time bomb,

a time bomb that just went off.

Now I hope you can understand how Dr. Lee's seven SARS cases confirmed for warning was so ominous.

That's why I did the last video about SARS because it gives some context.

It wasn't the SARS-coronavirus you found though, the cause of SARS, via acute respiratory syndrome,

but instead a virus that would come to be known as SARS-coronavirus-2,

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