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Pharma industry top-brass take to social media, bat for India’s Covid-19 vaccines
Indian pharmaceutical industry defends Covid-19 vaccines amid concerns, emphasizing global standards, safety, and efficacy to ...
A potentially mutating bat virus has some scientists worried about the next pandemic
Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists ...
New WHO report fails to rule out COVID-19 lab leak origin as China continues to impede investigation
New WHO report suggests COVID-19 originated from animal-to-human transmission, though Director-General Tedros maintains all ...
Overlooked Bat Viruses May Be 'Small Step' From Causing Next Pandemic
"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," said virologist ...
WHO expert group fails to find a definitive answer for how COVID-19 began
An expert group charged by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has found no ...
WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories still open, after inconclusive study
China has failed to provide vital data despite repeated requests, said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Read more at ...
20 New Bat Viruses Discovered in China, Sparking 'Urgent Concerns' About Risk to Humans
New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...
Will we ever know for sure how COVID-19 began? Not without more data from China, WHO says
An expert group from the World Health Organization failed to find a definitive answer to the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins in ...
Why bats are a global concern for pandemics: A look at their role in past and emerging viruses
Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...
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Spillover from animals or lab leak? WHO says Covid-19 origins still unknown as lack of data hampers four-year investigation
All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said yesterday, following an ...
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Scientists Find Over 20 New Bat Viruses In China, Warn Of “Critical Implications”
The newly discovered 20 new bat viruses, include close relatives of deadly henipaviruses, raising global public health ...
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'Small step away...': New bat virus similar to Covid emerges in China, raising fresh pandemic fears - Business Today
Within just a few months, SARS-CoV-2 had traversed international borders, leading to a global crisis. Even today, COVID-19 remains a concern, though at significantly reduced levels.