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Nipah virus outbreak renews calls to protect bat roostsThough Kerala's response to contain the outbreak drew international praise, the quick spread of the virus and its impact on tens of thousan...- Coronavirus origins: ‘If nothing went wrong at Wuhan lab, why the obfuscations?’"In view of a global pandemic with four million deaths, hundreds of millions out of work, and trillions of dollars in economic damage, I th...
- Global 'hot spots' where new coronaviruses may emerge identifiedThe researchers also identified locations that could easily become hot spots with changes in land use. They found that parts of Japan, the ...
- China, SE Asia 'hotspot' for new coronaviruses: StudyThe study, published in the journal Nature Food, showed that this is because of the global land-use changes including forest fragmentation,...
- EXPLAINER-The WHO's theories about the origins of COVID-19 after Wuhan probePeter Ben Embarek, the WHO's leading animal disease expert, said the team conducted scientific investigations into four main scenarios abou...
- China is making it harder to solve the mystery of how Covid beganChina has effectively snuffed out Covid-19, thanks to stringent border curbs, mass testing and a surveillance network that allows infected ...
- 'How the deadly Nipah virus jumps from bats to humans found'According to the research, published recently in the journal PNAS, the Nipah virus (NiV) could circulate among fruit bats, not just in plac...
- Chinese researchers warn of new virus in pigs with human pandemic riskResearchers looked at influenza viruses found in pigs from 2011 to 2018 and found a "G4" strain of H1N1 that has "all the essential hallmar...
- Coronavirus may infect intestinal tract along with respiratory systemAnalysis has revealed that Covid-19 is closely related to SARS-related coronaviruses found in horseshoe bats.
- Scientists track link between wildlife and COVID-19 outbreakBats are also believed to be the original source of Ebola virus outbreaks that infected people in Africa from 2014 to 2016, and in 1976. Sc...
- Last century's epidemics far more deadly than 21st century'sBefore the emergence late last year of the novel coronavirus, which has now killed more than 100,000 people, the 21st century's epidemics h...
- Fever, headache, body pain & difficulty in breathing: Symptoms of coronavirus similar to SARSThe infection is capable of spreading from person to person and between cities.
- New SARS-like virus could infect humansScientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found a SARS-like virus in Chinese horseshoe bats that may infect humans without need for ...
- Bats in India like to live among coffee plantsIt turns out that when coffee plantations encroach on natural forest habitat, bats are happy to live in the coffee.
- Deforestation serious threat to bats in IndiaWith increasing human population and rise in agricultural land use in India's Western Ghats, a number of bat species are findings it diffic...
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