The global spread of Covid-19 has already taken the lives of millions of people in the world. Unfortunately, this may well not be a once-in-a-century event. Several interrelating factors – among which the environmental ones are of crucial importance – act together to stimulate microbial emergence and diffusion, increasing the likelihood that disease spreads on a large scale and becomes a pandemic. Therefore, we need to get prepared for the “next” pandemic. One of the most prominent risk factors is globalization. Interconnectedness enabled humans, goods and resources to quickly move anywhere in the world. This led ⋙