Hantavirus scare a wake-up call: Why India must build its disease X defencesA recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship echoes past pandemic scares. Experts warn Disease X, a future unknown pathogen, is a near cer...
Hantavirus outbreak: How an African lab identified the deadly Andes strainA hantavirus scare aboard a cruise ship off Cape Verde prompted a rapid scientific response, with researchers in Senegal quickly identifyin...
Hantavirus: Britain secures experimental Japanese drug to strengthen responseBritain has received experimental favipiravir from Japan to treat a deadly hantavirus outbreak. The drug is not licensed in the UK and its ...
WHO declares international emergency as Ebola outbreak kills more than 80 in DR CongoThe World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency due to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Hantavirus scientists were close to vaccine but ran out of moneyScientists in Chile developed antibodies that successfully neutralised the deadly Andes hantavirus in lab and animal studies, raising hopes...
Two more passengers evacuated from cruise ship test positive for hantavirusPassengers from the ship began flying home aboard military and government planes Sunday after the MV Hondius anchored in the Canary Islands...
India faces no immediate public health threat from hantavirus: NIV chiefTwo Indian nationals aboard a cruise ship have reportedly contracted hantavirus. Indian health officials assure the public that these cases...
Wuhan Lab’s ominous bat virus research stokes global fears; scientists warn of alarming Covid-like capabilities, new strain shows ability to infect human cellsResearchers at the Wuhan lab discovered a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, that is similar to COVID-19 and can enter human cells. Scientist...
It's official now! CIA says the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a Wuhan lab after years of denial under Biden's administrationCIA director John Ratcliffe ordered the release of a declassified assessment about the origin theory of COVID-19.
Joe Biden kept in the dark: How spy agencies blocked key COVID lab leak briefingRecent reports indicate that U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI, suppressed key findings suggesting COVID-19 originated from a l...
Figuring out omicron - here's what scientists are doing right now to understand the new coronavirus variantHow effective are the antibodies people already have at fighting off omicron? If you got the booster shot, are you protected? Or if you had...
The last and only foreign scientist in Wuhan Lab speaks outHalf-truths and distorted information have obscured an accurate accounting of the lab's functions and activities, which were more routine t...
The Wuhan lab at the heart of the US-China virus spatThe Chinese laboratory accused by top American officials of being the source of the coronavirus pandemic conducts research on the world's m...
US intel: Coronavirus not manmade, still studying lab theoryIn recent days the Trump administration has sharpened its rhetoric on China, accusing the geopolitical foe and vital trading partner of fai...
Zika mosquito may transmit dengue, chikungunya with one biteThe findings shed new light on what is known as a co- infection, which scientists say is not yet fully understood and may be fairly common ...
India 2nd in list of countries facing cyber attack on mobilesIndia, with 7.9 per cent of attacks, stood at the second spot, followed by Vietnam (3.96 per cent), Ukraine (3.84 per cent) and the UK (3.4...
- Software labs warn of ATM virus that steals money from banks
Russia's leading computer security labs have warned of a new software virus which infects Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) to steal money fr...