100 dangerous viruses detected in China’s fur animals, nearly 40 could affect humansAnimal Fur Virus in China: A new study reveals that animals in Chinese fur farms are hosting dozens of viruses, including 36 newly discover...
05 Sep, 2024, 12.56 PM IST
China holds the key to understanding COVID-19 origins: WHO chiefThe World Health Organization chief pressed China on Thursday to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until tha...
07 Apr, 2023, 10.38 AM IST
WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid's originsThe NYT report said that the genetic data was drawn from swabs taken from in and around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market starting in Jan...
18 Mar, 2023, 12.37 PM IST
35 in China infected by 'Langya' virus; here's all you need to know about itA total of 35 human infections related to the Langya henipavirus has found in China's Shandong and Henan provinces, which can be transmitte...
10 Aug, 2022, 09.49 AM IST
Two years into pandemic, the origin of Covid tormenting the world still remains a mysteryMost scientists believe it emerged in the wild and jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another animal. Others theorise i...
11 Dec, 2021, 04.55 PM IST
Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID's animal originsLast month, Worobey published a COVID-19 timeline linking the first known human case to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China...
11 Dec, 2021, 12.10 PM IST
Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID's animal originsNow, with the global COVID-19 death toll surpassing 5.2 million on the second anniversary of the earliest human cases, a growing chorus of ...
10 Dec, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
China’s wildlife is a pandemic ‘waiting to happen,’ study findsAlthough the authors in China, the U.S., Belgium and Australia didn’t find anything resembling SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for ...
13 Nov, 2021, 09.23 AM IST
American spy agencies say origins of COVID-19 may never be knownSome U.S. spy agencies had strongly favored the explanation that the virus originated in nature. But there has been little corroboration an...
30 Oct, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
What the world wants China to disclose in Wuhan lab leak probeThe Group of Seven leaders this weekend are set to call for a fresh, transparent, World Health Organization-convened study into the origins...
11 Jun, 2021, 02.44 PM IST
COVID-19 either emerged naturally or it was laboratory accident, says US intelligence communityWhile two elements of the intelligence community lean toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter - each with low or mo...
27 May, 2021, 10.57 PM IST
What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in WuhanTeam member Peter Daszak sounded upbeat on arriving at the airport Wednesday at the end of the four-week trip to the central Chinese city o...
11 Feb, 2021, 08.14 AM IST
What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in WuhanThe visit was politically sensitive for China — which is concerned about any allegations it didn't handle the initial outbreak properly — a...
10 Feb, 2021, 06.40 PM IST
The WHO's China mission: Five questions still unansweredWHO team members said they were granted full access to the sites and individuals they requested to visit.
10 Feb, 2021, 04.45 PM IST
International team seeking Covid-19 origin to go to China in January: WHO"I can confirm that this will take place in January," WHO spokesman Hedinn Halldorsson told AFP when asked about reports that the expert te...
16 Dec, 2020, 06.02 PM IST
WHO says has no proof from US on 'speculative' Wuhan lab claims"We have not received any data or specific evidence from the United States government relating to the purported origin of the virus -- so f...
05 May, 2020, 11.11 AM IST
- Canada threatens WTO complaint for China pork ban
The Canadian government has threatened to file a complaint with the WTO if China fails to lift a ban on pork from Alberta, where a herd of ...
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