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Animals can bring tremendous joy to our lives, but they can also make us sick. Every year, tens of thousands of people fall ill to diseases transmitted through animal contact. These conditions are known as zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses. Here are some of the most common.
Salmonellosis
This very common bacterial infection can be transmitted through direct contact with animals such as dogs, rodents, and reptiles as well as through consumption of infected food. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever, headache, and spleen enlargement.
Leptospirosis
Contact with the urine of infected dogs, mice, or rats, or with urine-contaminated materials, can quickly spread this debilitating disease. Symptoms, which present in two phases, include headache, muscle ache, stiff neck, eye pain when viewing bright light, and inflammation of nerves of the eyes, brain, and spinal column.
World Health Organization (WHO) with raw data on early Wuhan coronavirus cases. The global health body said Chinese authorities have turned down requests to provide data on 174 COVID-19 cases dating back to December 2019. China’s information is of huge help to WHO investigators examining how and when the coronavirus first began to spread in the country. Investigators finished their month-long scrutiny on the matter during the week of Feb. 12.
WHO experts said Chinese officials and scientists provided their own extensive summaries and analyses of COVID-19 case data. They also supplied aggregate data and analysis on retrospective searches through medical records in the months leading to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Ultimately, Chinese health authorities claimed that they found no evidence of the virus.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/496985.html (Natural News) The team leader of the
World Health Organization‘s (WHO) investigative mission to Wuhan, China revealed that SARS-CoV-2 had already been circulating widely even before it was reported. Because of its wide circulation among the populace, the Wuhan coronavirus had already mutated 13 times by December 2019. This information suggested that the virus was present in the population for a significant period of time for it to develop.
Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, the lead of the WHO’s team, said that the 13 variants of the Wuhan coronavirus were based on partial genetic samples of the virus. These samples, taken in December 2019, were previously unavailable to international researchers.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/486865.html (Natural News) China has blocked a team of scientists investigating the Wuhan coronavirus’s origins from entering the country. According to Chinese officials, the visas of the
World Health Organization (WHO) team had not yet been approved. The WHO has been trying to send a team consisting of global health experts from different countries for some months now.
WHO Health Emergencies Program Executive Director Dr. Mike Ryan said the WHO team had been working very closely with Chinese colleagues to make the trip possible. “We were all operating on the understanding that the team will begin deployment [on Jan. 5.] We did not want to put people in the air unnecessarily if there wasn’t a guarantee of their arrival in China being successful,” he explained.