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US Reports First Case Of Coronavirus Among Wild Minks After Denmak And Italy
In the US, the first ever case of coronavirus in mink has been reported around an infected mink farm in Utah, said a US veterinary official.
In the United States, the first ever case of coronavirus in mink has been reported around an infected mink farm in Utah, said a US veterinary official in an alert to the International Society for Infectious Diseases. According to the reports by BBC, Dr Dan Horton, a veterinary expert at the University of Surrey, UK said that this is the first known detection of the coronavirus in a free-ranging wild mink . Keeping in mind the previous cases in Europe, this could further lead to concerns regarding the spreading of virus.
What we know now about where coronavirus came from Sarah Boseley
8 min read Officials have learned a lot since last winter when a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin was reported in China
Maria van Kerkhove was staying with her sister in the US for the Christmas holidays, but checking her emails. As always. Every day there are signals of potential trouble, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) virologist who was to become a household name and face within weeks.
“There’s always something that happens at Christmas time. There’s always some alert, or a signal of a suspected case. The last several years it’s been Mers [Middle East respiratory syndrome] – a suspect case travelling to Malaysia or Indonesia or Korea or somewhere in Asia from the Middle East. So there’s always some kind of signal. There’s always something that happens,” s
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Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka
Sri Lanka is currently experiencing two crises which will trigger the third. They stem from a common source and therefore can be resolved only if rectification takes place at that source, that root.
One crisis is the second wave of COVID-19. It is manifest and acknowledged but its dimensions are played down and the sins of commission and omission which led to it are unspoken. Another is that of our external relations. That crisis is latent, but not entirely invisible, and is completely unacknowledged. The third crisis, which is building up, is the economic.
The common root of the failure to prevent or manage these crises is the error in policy perspectives, stemming from the error of policy paradigms, sourced in wrong thinking, wrong attitudes and outlook.