Resource development centres often create prefect storms for pandemics. The HIV/AIDS pandemic broke out during the mining boom of the 1920s in Kinshasa. Many such centres of rapid industrial growth are emerging in China, and that could be a reason why similar episodes are increasing there. Wuhan is one such place which has created the perfect storm for the 2019-nCov virus to emerge as the latest threat to human populations. Keeping the human, domestic and wild animal biomes in their boundaries are essential. Natural resource management has a significant role to play here.

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