Why It’s Important to Study Coronaviruses in African Bats
The current outbreak of a new coronavirus disease, named COVID-19, raises the question of where diseases like this come from ...
Tag: Zoonotic
Re-Creating Live-Animal Markets in the Lab Lets Researchers See How Pathogens Jump Species
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 that’s currently spreading ...
Bats’ Fierce Immune Systems Drive Viruses To Higher Virulence, Making Them Deadlier in Humans
A new University of California, Berkeley, study finds that bats' fierce immune response to viruses could drive viruses to replicate ...
What Does the Illegal Wildlife Trade Have to Do With Spreading Epidemics?
From live monkeys smuggled through customs to tigers shot or bred for their bones, soaring demand for wildlife, dead or ...
Coronavirus Deaths Are So Far Mostly Older Men, Many With Previous Health Issues
China’s health commission today released the most complete details to date about the 17 confirmed deaths from the disease. An ...
Scientists Create Decoy Molecule that Neutralizes Arenaviruses
A host of disease-causing viruses called arenaviruses lurk in animal populations in various parts of the world, sometimes crossing over ...
Deforestation Leading to More Infectious Diseases in Humans
60 percent of new infectious diseases that emerge in people—including HIV, Ebola , and Nipah, all of which originated in ...
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