X (previously Twitter) and other social media platforms are ablaze with reports of an alleged multiple virus epidemic in China. Speculation that China has proclaimed a state of emergency goes hand in hand with these reports. Nevertheless, there is no evidence to support the assertion that China has imposed a state of emergency due to

Delving deep into bat habitats, scientists uncover how coronaviruses evolve, migrate, and cross-species, shedding light on pandemic origins and future risks. Study: Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China. Image Credit: Carl Allen / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, a group of researchers investigated the evolution, cross-species transmission, and

A new study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases reinforces the urgent need for surveillance of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and phenotypic studies to monitor MERS-CoV spillover, adaptation, and pandemic potential. MERS-CoV circulates in dromedary camels in the Arabian Peninsula and occasionally causes spillover infections in humans. Since 2012, a total of 2,626 cases

“WHO’s international experts have repeatedly said that during their visit to China, they went to all the places they wanted to go and met all the people they wanted to see,” Mao added. China went into lockdown in January 2020, with countries around the world quickly following suit to curb the spread of the virus.

“Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spouse Sara. (File) 1 Published :   15 hours ago| Last Updated :   14 hours ago| Sara Netanyahu, wife of “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has contracted COVID-19 during her stay in the United States and is said to be suffering from severe symptoms – according to

Members of the U.S. intelligence community who believed that the coronavirus may have originated from a lab leak in China were blocked from sharing their opinions and research with the broader intel community, according to sources inside the FBI and other government officials familiar with the Biden administration’s internal efforts during the pandemic. In the first

The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet. Covid-19 killed millions of people, shredded economies and crippled health systems. “We continue to call on China to share data and access so

Robert Redfield, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a Saturday appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend that “it’s possible” the United States’ intelligence apparatus was involved in creating viruses in China in reference to a recent report on the government’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Newsweek

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates life expectancy in the US is now higher than at any point since the coronavirus pandemic, predicting an average lifetime of 78.4 years for those born in 2023. In 2022 the statistic was calculated to be an average of 77.5 years, hinting at

(CNN) — The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird flu that keep showing signs of their own pandemic potential, health experts told CNN Friday. “We kind of have our head in the sand about how widespread this is from the

Among the several health consequences COVID has or might have, a major concern is around the growing risk of autism among those kids who were born to moms who had COVID during pregnancy. A study presented at a medical conference in Copenhagen in May revealed alarming data on the onset of autism COVID exposed babies

We know a lot more about Covid-19 than at the start of the pandemic, but there are still important questions remaining that divide experts Five years ago this month, the first patients started arriving in hospitals in Wuhan, China, with a mysterious kind of pneumonia. Covid-19 had arrived and the world would never be the

1. GDP gap India’s growth seems to have rebounded, but the data masks the fact that the stumble of 2020-21 set us back several years from the pre-covid output path. Between 2011-12 and 2019-20, the Indian economy averaged an annual growth rate of 6.6%. In 2020-21, it plunged to 5.8% as stringent lockdowns were imposed.