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Outbreaks from animals in Africa surge by 60% in last decade

FILE - A video of the spread and mutation of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 plays on a laptop at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick, Md., Thursday, March 19, 2020, where scientists are working to help develop solutions to prevent, detect and treat the coronavirus. The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has jumped by more than 60% in the last decade, the World Health Organization said in a statement Thursday, July 14, 2022, a worrying sign the planet could face increased animal-borne diseases like monkeypox, Ebola and coronavirus in the future. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

FILE - A medical worker sprays people being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia,
on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has jumped by more than 60% in the last decade, the World Health Organization said in a statement Thursday, July 14, 2022, a worrying sign the planet could face increased animal-borne diseases like monkeypox, Ebola and coronavirus in the future. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

FILE - Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the first woman to lead the the World Health Organization's regional Africa office, joins Congo's health minister Gilbert Mokoki on a field trip in Brazzaville, Congo, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has jumped by more than 60% in the last decade, the World Health Organization said in a statement Thursday, July 14, 2022, a worrying sign the planet could face increased animal-borne diseases like monkeypox, Ebola and coronavirus in the future. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Outbreaks from animals in Africa surge by 60% in last decade