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Six-Year Study Reveals How Nipah Virus Spreads Among Fruit Bats 21/12/2020 Indian flying fox in flight, Jamtara Wilderness Camp, Madhya Pradesh. Photo: Charles J Sharp/CC BY-SA 4.0. New Delhi: The deadly Nipah virus kills nearly 75% of the people it infects, but the circumstances under which the bat species, known as the Indian flying fox, transmits the virus to humans has remained a mystery. Now, a six-year, multidisciplinary study has revealed how the Nipah virus, which claimed the lives of 17 people in Kerala in 2018, spreads among fruit bats – findings which can help predict ...

There’s no urgent need for a pet vaccine. In addition, “Cats and dogs don’t play an important role in the maintenance or transmission of the disease to humans,” says William Karesh, executive vice president for health and policy at EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that tracks emerging diseases in animals. As a result, he says, “There’s no need for a vaccine from a public health standpoint.” Indeed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which grants commercial licenses for pet vaccines, is not currently approving any for COVID-19. The “data do not indicate that such a vacci...

Infection seems to have come from farm animals, but there is no evidence of further spreading. The infection of one wild mink in Utah sharpens worries about the virus spreading to wild populations. Credit...Linda Freshwaters Arndt/Science Source Dec. 15, 2020 A wild mink in Utah has tested positive for the coronavirus. Mink on fur farms in the area have been infected with the virus, and the U.S. Agriculture Department, with other government agencies, was testing wild animals looking for potential infections spreading from those farms. The department notified the World Organization for Animal...

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Master bedrooms. >> excavation will be able to accelerate because of this. it had been inaccessible and a lot of people were sleeping at that time, unfortunately, in that part of it. >> reporter: the building's demolition could affect the investigation into the initial collapse. >> well, it just makes what we have to do a little bit more complicated. >> reporter: but investigators like allyn kilsheimer will also review photographs, including some that bring into question the layout of steel reinforcements in the building's concrete supports. >> it doesn't mean there weren't the right number th...