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NIPAH virus is among the top five candidates for the next pandemic and could spread like wildfire through human populations, a leading scientist has claimed. ....
CGTN | Updated: 2021-03-03 10:37 Share CLOSE Strong evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats, but whether it passed directly from bats to people or through an intermediate host remains a mystery. [Photo/CGTN] It is the world s most pressing scientific puzzle. Pieces scattered around the world are being collected in search of a suspect in the largest health crisis to ever hit the globe in the past century. With the coronavirus outbreak first reported in Central China s Wuhan, followed by other reports elsewhere in world, scientists from around the world agree on SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, originated in bats. ....
Covid 19 coronavirus: Piecing together the next pandemic 16 Feb, 2021 10:36 PM 10 minutes to read Dr. Jessica Manning, a public health researcher with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Photo / Thomas Cristofoletti, The New York Times Dr. Jessica Manning, a public health researcher with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Photo / Thomas Cristofoletti, The New York Times New York Times By: Amos Zeeberg From a small lab in Cambodia, Dr. Jessica Manning is on the lookout for emerging diseases. Covid-19 arrived in Cambodia a year ago, on January 23, when a Chinese national flew in from Wuhan, China, the city where the illness was first detected, and soon fell sick with a fever. A PCR test to detect the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, came back positive. With that news, the disease had officially pierced the borders of another nation. ....
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January 28, 2021 A handout photo. The Cambodian samples were taken from horseshoe bats. South China Morning Post With a World Health Organisation investigation into the origins of the coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease under way in China, a laboratory in Cambodia has discovered close relatives of the pathogen in samples that have been stored in a freezer for more than a decade. Two viruses found in the samples, taken from horseshoe bats in northeastern Cambodia in 2010 and identified in research released on Tuesday, have a 92.6 per cent similarity to SARS-CoV-2 behind the Covid-19 pandemic. That makes them the closest relatives uncovered outside China and adds new information to the investigation into where the pathogen came from. ....