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Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...
Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...
Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...
New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...
Chinese scientists have raised concerns over 20 never-seen-before viruses found in the kidneys of bats mostly found in the Yunnan province of the country. According to researchers, the viruses—closely ...
At least two of these viruses are closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses, raising fresh concerns about the ...
Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over ...
SCIENTISTS have raised “urgent concerns” over new viruses discovered in bats which have the potential to spill over into ...
Summary box Health workers were differentially infected during the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak with an incidence rate of 30 to 44/1000 depending on their job duties, compared to the wider population’s ...
Pete Wicks recently claimed that he caught a serious disease after starring in a 2018 show that saw him lose a dramatic ...
Introduction There has been no systematic comparison of how the policy response to past infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics was funded. This study aims to collate and analyse funding for the ...
Gonatus antarcticus had been discovered by Einar Lönnberg—a Swedish zoologist who had gone on an expedition to Tierra del Fuego—at the extreme southern tip of South America in 1898.