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A Tiny Parasite That Can Make Mice Lose Their Fear of CatsThe parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects mice, altering their fear responses to cats. Instead of avoiding cat odors, infected mice are drawn ...- 'Batwoman' Shi Zhengli discovered a new bat coronavirus HKU5-Cov-2 and its impact on human health. Who is she?New bat coronavirus in China: A team of Chinese researchers, led by 'batwoman' Shi Zhengli discovered a new bat coronavirus HKU5-Cov-2 whic...
- HKU5-CoV-2, the new bat coronavirus in China sparks global concern: Know its symptoms and how does it spreadThe new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, found in China has sparked concerns among health officials and has triggered panic. HKU5-CoV-2 has sim...
- New analysis of Wuhan market samples reveal 'specific species' potential carriers of COVID-19 virusA new study identifies raccoon dogs, civet cats, and bamboo rats as potential intermediate hosts for COVID-19 at Wuhan's seafood market. Re...
- Why are animal-to-human diseases on the rise?A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) is a disease or infection transmitted from vertebrate animals to people, and vice versa. The pathogens involve...
- Were raccoon dogs the source of Covid-19?Despite their name, raccoon dogs are not close relatives of raccoons.
- Cause for concern: Monkeypox can become endemic but here's how we can contain the outbreakThere are a number of reasons the current outbreak is so concerning.
- Monkeypox can become endemic - here's how it can be stopped in its tracksMonkeypox is a zoonotic virus, meaning it can spread from animals to humans. So in regions where monkeypox is endemic, the virus spreads wh...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Nipah Virus: Symptoms, prevention, treatment of the infection, everything you need to knowSo far, the infection has claimed 16 lives in Kerala.
- Covid origins mirror SARS’s genesis in animals, study findsThe paper was released Wednesday ahead of peer review, and is being prepared for submission to a journal for publication, one of the author...
- How virus detectives trace the origins of an outbreak - and why it's so trickyIn order to predict and prevent future pandemics like COVID-19, researchers need to find the origin of the viruses that cause them. This is...
- Origins of SARS-CoV-2: Why the lab-leak idea is being considered againSo far, none of these hypotheses have shown the origins of the virus. One of the first scenarios put forward that the Wuhan seafood market ...
- WHO's coronavirus origins report: All you need to know about the four theories in playThe final report, a joint WHO-China study, which AFP obtained Monday ahead of its official release, spelled out how the joint team of Chine...
- 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...
- 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...
- Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO"All available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or somewhere else," WHO spok...
- View: It's time for humans to stop living voraciouslyChina’s crackdown in 2003 on wildlife markets ended after Sars exited. History is repeating itself, this time while the Covid-19 pandemic i...
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