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Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the risk of animal to human disease transmission, illegal wildlife trade on social media networks has continued, with wild animals sometimes sold as lockdown pets . Researchers from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Western Australia, having analysed around 20,000 Facebook posts about wild pet trade, are urging increased governance on social media sites in order to curb potential extinctions and reduce the risk of pandemics.
With the current global pandemic of COVID-19, the role of wild animals in emerging infectious diseases (EID) is in the spotlight. Human-animal transmission has been documented in previous virus outbreaks such as SARS and MERS. Several of the early cases of COVID-19 were linked to a wet market in Wuhan, China, although there is, as yet, not enough evidence to conclude how the virus transmitted to humans.
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Essex lorry deaths: What happened?
And it provides a chance to save money and send it home to their families, most of whom have borrowed to pay the smugglers.
The risks involved in the often perilous journey were illustrated by the deaths of 39 Vietnamese men, women and
children who suffocated in an airless, sealed lorry trailer before it arrived by ferry in Essex last year. Advertisement
One young Vietnamese man who survived a similar trip - and too scared of his smugglers to reveal his name - said: When I left Vietnam
I didn t care about dying. I was going to die anyway, so if I died on the way to the UK I didn t care. I was desperate to leave Vietnam and get to the UK for work.
PITTSFIELD â Immigrants make up only 6 percent of Berkshire County s total population, but 35 percent of the roughly 8,000 who live here are not proficient in English, according to George Mason University s Institute for Immigration Research.
That percentage is lower than the state average of 43 percent, but it still is significant. To close that gap even more, organizations like the Literacy Network of South Berkshire in Lee are there to help.
Leigh Doherty became LitNet s new program director in September, and she brings over 20 years of educational experience to this almost-30-year-old organization that teaches its clients how to speak, read and write English through one-on-one tutoring.
“Further support being time off from placement for intensive trauma therapy and mitigating circumstances for assignments.” However, at the meeting organised by her lecturer Ms Graham said that she was met with ‘aggressive shouting’ and was told that ‘all students go through this’. She was also asked whether she was lying. Ms Graham added: “This unfortunately meant that I was left feeling suicidal, was not attending university and was self harming every day.” Ms Graham decided to skip a year and, upon her return in June, she founded Say It Loud – a sexual violence support group, which now boasts a team of 17 people.