Los murciélagos y la COVID-19, una injusta historia
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Jorge Galindo-González
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2583-2754
Rodrigo A. Medellín
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4242-5344
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2583-2754
Rodrigo A. Medellín
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4242-5344
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Las zoonosis, como la rabia, el paludismo o el dengue, han afectado a los humanos desde nuestro origen. Ante la COVID-19, nuestro objetivo es destacar que los murciélagos no son los culpables de la pandemia; por el contrario, son muchos los servicios que proporcionan al ser humano en la salud, la agricultura, la alimentación y la economía. No se ha encontrado el SARS-CoV-2 en ningún murciélago: el contagio de la COVID-19 es entre humanos. El 70% de las enfermedades zoonóticas, como el SARS o el MERS, proviene de animales silvestres comercializados ilegalmente, por lo que es necesario eliminar la venta ilegal en mercados insalubres que representan un foco de contagios y proliferación de enfermedades infecciosas emergentes. El exterminio de murciélagos es perjudicial, no sólo para los propios murciélagos y el ecosistema, sino para nuestra salud, economía y bienestar.
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GALINDO-GONZÁLEZ, Jorge; MEDELLÍN, Rodrigo A..
Los murciélagos y la COVID-19, una injusta historia.
CIENCIA ergo-sum, [S.l.], v. 28, n. 2, mar. 2021.
ISSN 2395-8782.
Disponible en: <https://cienciaergosum.uaemex.mx/article/view/14941>. Fecha de acceso: 04 jun. 2025
doi: https://doi.org/10.30878/ces.v28n2a11.
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