Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track Covid-19 origins
3 years, 3 months ago

Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track Covid-19 origins

India Today  

Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago. "We hope that the result from this study can help the world to have a better understanding about Covid-19," field coordinator Thavry Hoem told Reuters, as she held a net to catch bats. The French-funded project also aims to look at how the wildlife trade could be playing a part, said Julia Guillebaud, a research engineer at the IPC's virology unit. " aims to provide new knowledge on wild meat trade chains in Cambodia, document the diversity of betacoronaviruses circulating through these chains, and develop a flexible and integrated early-detection system of viral spill-over events," Gillebaud said.

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Leave bats alone in their habitats for a pandemic-free future, says study
1 year, 7 months ago

Leave bats alone in their habitats for a pandemic-free future, says study

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Scientists make the case that pandemic prevention requires a global taboo or ban whereby mankind agreed to leave bats alone, to let them have the habitats they need, undisturbed, in a study published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health. We must change humanity's relationship with nature if we want to prevent the next pandemic of zoonotic origin …

Bat coronaviruses silently infect tens of thousands of people each year, posing pandemic risk, study warns
2 years, 4 months ago

Bat coronaviruses silently infect tens of thousands of people each year, posing pandemic risk, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There may be an average of over 65,000 cases of bat coronaviruses silently infecting people …

Scientists find bats with Covid-like viruses in Laos caves
3 years, 3 months ago

Scientists find bats with Covid-like viruses in Laos caves

India Today  

Scientists have discovered another clue to the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19, with bats living in caves in Laos found to be carrying a similar pathogen that experts suggest could potentially infect humans directly. Researchers from France's Pasteur Institute and the National University of Laos said their findings showed that viruses genetically close to the SARS-CoV-2 virus "exist …

Peter Daszak was studying Coronavirus in China a year before Covid-19
3 years, 6 months ago

Peter Daszak was studying Coronavirus in China a year before Covid-19

Op India  

On June 14, it was reported that a video had emerged showing live bats in Wuhan Institute of Virology, adding to the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have leaked from the institute, accidentally or otherwise. These viruses include those able to bind to ACE2, the human cell-surface receptor for SARS-CoV, and able to infect and cause illness in the …

World Health Assembly under lens as demand for fuller probe into China link to Covid-19 grows
3 years, 7 months ago

World Health Assembly under lens as demand for fuller probe into China link to Covid-19 grows

Hindustan Times  

Amidst a US intelligence report that advocates a larger probe into the possibility that the Covid-19 virus could have leaked from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, the World Health Assembly is meeting today to pass an anodyne resolution on setting up of an inter-governmental working group to further discuss the submitted three reports investigating the origins of the global pandemic …

Wild Recovery: Protecting nature and preventing the next pandemic
3 years, 8 months ago

Wild Recovery: Protecting nature and preventing the next pandemic

Al Jazeera  

earthrise looks at protecting wildlife and preventing pandemics through the stories of two endangered mammals which have been investigated for links to COVID-19. In southern India, locals are safeguarding the only remaining home of one critically endangered bat. And disease ecologist, Jonathan Epstein, explains how our encroachment on nature is making another outbreak “almost guaranteed”. With films made by Untamed …

WHO Covid-19 origin report says virus likely spread to people from an animal – but needs more study
3 years, 9 months ago

WHO Covid-19 origin report says virus likely spread to people from an animal – but needs more study

CNN  

CNN — The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 probably spread to people through an animal, and probably started spreading among humans no more than a month or two before it was noticed in December of 2019, according a new 120-page report from the World Health Organization. The report says introduction through cold food products is considered a “possible pathway” and …

WHO-China study on COVID-19 origin says transmission from bats to humans via another animal 'very likely'
3 years, 9 months ago

WHO-China study on COVID-19 origin says transmission from bats to humans via another animal 'very likely'

ABC  

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario. Key points: The Associated Press says it has obtained a draft copy of the report that outlines the study's findings Overall, the findings are largely as expected and left many questions unanswered The …

Wildlife farms in southern China likely source of Covid pandemic, WHO expert says
3 years, 9 months ago

Wildlife farms in southern China likely source of Covid pandemic, WHO expert says

India Today  

An expert at the World Health Organisation rejected the possibility that Covid-19 emerged in a lab and claimed that wildlife farms in China are likely the source of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Peter Daszak, a member of the WHO team that travelled to China to probe the origin of Covid-19, told an American news agency that the officials found new …

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab at centre of speculation
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab at centre of speculation

The Hindu  

World Health Organisation investigators on Wednesday visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues. Uniformed and plainclothes security guards stood watch along the facility’s gated front entrance, but there …

AP PHOTOS: Thai scientists catch bats to trace virus origins
4 years, 4 months ago

AP PHOTOS: Thai scientists catch bats to trace virus origins

Associated Press  

KANCHANABURI, Thailand — Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the countryside to catch bats in their caves in an effort to trace the murky origins of the coronavirus. Initial research has already pointed to bats as the source of the virus that has afflicted more than 20.5 million people and caused the deaths of over 748,000 worldwide, according to …

Thai scientists catch bats to trace origins of the coronavirus
4 years, 4 months ago

Thai scientists catch bats to trace origins of the coronavirus

LA Times  

A researcher removes a bat from a trapping net inside a cave at Sai Yok National Park in Thailand. Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the countryside to catch bats in their caves in an effort to trace the murky origins of the coronavirus. Thai researchers hiked up a hill in Sai Yok National Park in the western province …

World Environment Day 2020: Bats are not the enemy in the fight against the novel Coronavirus
4 years, 7 months ago

World Environment Day 2020: Bats are not the enemy in the fight against the novel Coronavirus

Firstpost  

Oversimplification of scientific facts and misinterpretations have triggered a backlash against bats, prompting biologists to clear the air on bat-borne viruses. In a statement released on April 24, 2020, 64 chiropterologists from six South Asian nations debunked myths on COVID-19 and bats stating that bats do not spread the novel coronavirus disease.”The novel coronavirus diverged from the closest coronavirus found …

The virus hunters who search bat caves to predict the next pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

The virus hunters who search bat caves to predict the next pandemic

CNN  

Anderson Cooper examines the possible connection between bats and many deadly human viruses in CNN Special Report “Bats: The Mystery Behind Covid-19.” Watch Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. “We also carry out oral and faecal swabs and gather droppings,” says Peter Daszak, who presides over EcoHealth Alliance, an American NGO which specializes in detecting new viruses and pandemic prevention. “It …

Coronavirus: Exterminating bats blamed for spreading Covid-19 would increase risk of further diseases, warn experts
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Exterminating bats blamed for spreading Covid-19 would increase risk of further diseases, warn experts

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Exterminating colonies of bats because they were the source of Covid-19 would be pointless and …

Bat coronaviruses discovered in Myanmar study don't appear to harm humans
4 years, 8 months ago

Bat coronaviruses discovered in Myanmar study don't appear to harm humans

Firstpost  

Last week, scientists from the Smithsonian’s Global Health program discovered six new coronaviruses in bats living in popular caves in Myanmar. Scientists associated with the United States Agency for International Development’s PREDICT program have discovered 140 new coronaviruses since 2009, with the aim of studying their effects on humans and planning interventions to mitigate future outbreaks. Last week, scientists from …

Op-Ed: COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to animals is killing us, too
4 years, 9 months ago

Op-Ed: COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to animals is killing us, too

LA Times  

Scientists suspect that COVID-19 is caused by a virus that jumped from bats to humans through wildlife sold at a live animal market. About two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases in humans — including COVID-19, SARS, MERS, Ebola, HIV, Zika, H1N1, cholera and almost all recent epidemics — came from animals. As 7.8 billion people on this planet radically alter ecosystems …

New Research: Bats Harbor Hundreds Of Coronaviruses, And Spillovers Aren't Rare
4 years, 10 months ago

New Research: Bats Harbor Hundreds Of Coronaviruses, And Spillovers Aren't Rare

NPR  

New Research: Bats Harbor Hundreds Of Coronaviruses, And Spillovers Aren't Rare Enlarge this image toggle caption Kevin Olival Kevin Olival Three years ago, NPR accompanied disease ecologist Kevin Olival on a field trip to Malaysian Borneo. Olival says what they found is alarming: "We found evidence for, in total, from all the sampling we did in China, about 400 new …

Endangered pangolin suspect No.1 as direct source of coronavirus outbreak
4 years, 11 months ago

Endangered pangolin suspect No.1 as direct source of coronavirus outbreak

Hindustan Times  

Chinese researchers investigating the animal origin of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China said Friday the endangered pangolin may be the “missing link” between bats and humans, but other scientists said the search may not be over. After testing more than 1,000 samples from wild animals, scientists at the South China Agricultural University found the genome sequences of viruses in …

Study on bats and bat hunters in Nagaland to be probed
4 years, 11 months ago

Study on bats and bat hunters in Nagaland to be probed

The Hindu  

The government has ordered an inquiry into a study conducted in Nagaland by researchers from the U.S., China and India on bats and humans carrying antibodies to deadly viruses like Ebola, officials confirmed to The Hindu. The study, conducted by scientists of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the National Centre for Biological Sciences, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the …

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