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Massive use of disinfectants against COVID-19 poses potential risks to urban wildlife

• Globally, massive disinfectants are used to contain the rapid spread of COVID-19. • Applying massive disinfectants pose a significant threat to urban environment and wildlife. • Policies are required to minimize the adverse effects on wildlife due to overuse of disinfectants.

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Autores principales: Nabi, Ghulam, Wang, Yang, Hao, Yujiang, Khan, Suliman, Wu, Yuefeng, Li, Dongming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32846656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916
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spelling pubmed-73468352020-07-10 Massive use of disinfectants against COVID-19 poses potential risks to urban wildlife Nabi, Ghulam Wang, Yang Hao, Yujiang Khan, Suliman Wu, Yuefeng Li, Dongming Environ Res Article • Globally, massive disinfectants are used to contain the rapid spread of COVID-19. • Applying massive disinfectants pose a significant threat to urban environment and wildlife. • Policies are required to minimize the adverse effects on wildlife due to overuse of disinfectants. Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7346835/ /pubmed/32846656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32846656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916
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