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Stunning! Scientists of The Lancet letter are compromised or backtracking June 9, 2021 In February 2020, the preeminent medical journal The Lancet published a letter signed by several scientists condemning “conspiracy theories” that the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus did not have a “natural origin.” This was before anyone could possibly have known it if was natural or not. Many knew it was an obvious fraud and cover-up but everyone was banned from suggesting that. The Lancet letter was meant ...

The WHO announced the debut of what it claimed to be a "simple, easy to say and remember" system for naming coronavirus variants.

Health experts around the world are focused on SARS-CoV-2, but similar viruses and microbial organisms such as bacteria could create the next global killer

After Covid 19: Searching for the Next Viral Threat To Linfa Wang, PhD, some of the most important unanswered questions about the COVID-19 pandemic lie within slick layers of guano, deep in a hole in the ground. A virologist with the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, Wang was part of a team of international scientists tasked by the World Health Organization (WHO) with unraveling the origins of the original SARS virus 17 years ago. Now he’s attempting to do the same with the coronavirus th...

Scientific American What’s Next in the Search for COVID’s Origins A World Health Organization report makes a reasonable start, scientists say, but there are many questions yet to be answered Print A customer shops for fish at a wet market in Shanghai, China, January 2021. Credit: Qilai Shen Advertisement Researchers say that a World Health Organization (WHO) report on the pandemic’s origins offers an in-depth summary of available data, including unseen granular details. But much remains ...

When COVID-19 first broke out in Wuhan, scientists tracked a large number of the cases to the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Above: The Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team departs the market on Jan. 11, 2020, after it had been shut down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. There is a lot of information packed into the 300-page report on the origins of the pandemic released this week. Here are three key points that havent received a great deal of media attention. This week, the World Hea...

Originally published on March 15, 2021 4:51 pm A member of the World Health Organization investigative team says wildlife farms in southern China are the most likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic. China shut down those wildlife farms in February 2020, says Peter Daszak, a disease ecologist with EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the WHO delegation that traveled to China this year. During that trip, Daszak says, the WHO team found new evidence that these wildlife farms were supplying vendors ...

A member of the World Health Organization investigative team says wildlife farms in southern China are the most likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bamboo rats are among the wild animals farmed for food in China and other parts of Asia. A member of the World Health Organization team investigating the coronavirus pandemic says its report will conclude that such animal farms are likely the place where the pandemic began. Above, a live rat is on sale at a food market in Myanmar. Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images Bamboo r...

Experts: Identifying COVID-19 origin important, predicting next pandemic vital By (0) Efforts to find the origins of the coronavirus are important, but spotting the next pandemic is crucial, experts say. Illustration courtesy of CDC March 11 (UPI) -- Finding the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19 could guide public health efforts aimed at ending the current pandemic, experts from Duke University said Thursday. However, identifying new bugs that threaten to start the next one is even ...