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

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916

. 2020 Sep:188:109916.

doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916. Epub 2020 Jul 9.

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

Ghulam Nabi¹, Yang Wang¹, Yujiang Hao², Suliman Khan³, Yuefeng Wu¹, Dongming Li⁴

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¹ Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, Hebei Province, China.
² Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei Province, China.
³ Department of Cerebrovascular Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan Province, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, Hebei Province, China. Electronic address: lidngmng@gmail.com.

PMID: 32846656
PMCID: PMC7346835
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916

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

Ghulam Nabi et al. Environ Res.2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep:188:109916.

doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916. Epub 2020 Jul 9.

Authors

Ghulam Nabi¹, Yang Wang¹, Yujiang Hao², Suliman Khan³, Yuefeng Wu¹, Dongming Li⁴

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, Hebei Province, China.
² Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei Province, China.
³ Department of Cerebrovascular Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan Province, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, Hebei Province, China. Electronic address: lidngmng@gmail.com.

PMID: 32846656
PMCID: PMC7346835
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109916

Abstract

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

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Rampant use of disinfectants. The spraying of disinfectants in public areas to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which inevitably poses a series of deleterious threats to urban environments and wildlife.

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[1] Aronson M.F.J., Lepczyk C.A., Evans K.L., Goddard M.A., Lerman S.B., MacIvor J.S., Nilon C.H., Vargo T. Biodiversity in the city: key challenges for urban green space management. Front. Ecol. Environ. 2017;15:189–196.

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[9] Bonin L., Vitry V., Olivier M.G., Bertolucci-Coelho L. Covid-19: effect of disinfection on corrosion of surfaces. Corrosion Eng. Sci. Technol. 2020 doi: 10.1080/1478422X.2020.1777022. - DOI

[10] Bonin L., Vitry V., Olivier M.G., Bertolucci-Coelho L. Covid-19: effect of disinfection on corrosion of surfaces. Corrosion Eng. Sci. Technol. 2020 doi: 10.1080/1478422X.2020.1777022. - DOI

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