Eat less meat to prevent further pandemics, says expert
Reducing how much meat we eat can help control evolution and transmission of diseases, says scientist
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We must reduce our meat consumption if the World is to prevent pandemics like the Covid-19 coronavirus happening again, a researcher has said.
Dutch scientists train bees to detect coronavirus Research could be used to help fight the pandemic in underdeveloped countries
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The scientists found that due to their highly developed sense of smell, the bees learned how to detect the virus after just minutes of training. Photograph: Getty Images
Researchers at a Dutch university have trained bees to detect coronavirus using a cheap and easily scalable model that could help fight the pandemic in underdeveloped countries.
Like other diseases, such as cancer, coronavirus causes metabolic changes in the human body that generate a unique smell. The team at Wageningen University – which specialises in life sciences research – has taught the bees to identify that smell.
We should take confidence from the fact the advice on the AstraZeneca jab has moved with the data
For younger people, where the risk of serious disease from Covid is low, it is right they should be offered a choice of vaccine
7 April 2021 • 8:30pm
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If the presentations led by medical regulators in the UK and Europe on Wednesday do not build confidence in vaccines I’m not sure what will. Performing under pressure, they managed that rare feat: treating us as adults and communicating their all-but-matching messages with clarity.
The key message is this: the benefits of taking the AstraZeneca vaccine greatly outweigh the serious but vanishingly rare clotting risk associated with it. Only for the young - those under 30 - is the judgment more “finely tuned”, and even then the vaccine continues to trump the risk of Covid while the virus is widespread (see charts below).
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