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New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says
3 months ago

New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says

LA Times  

A convoy of vehicles carrying investigators from the World Health Organization enters the interior of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, early in the COVID-19 pandemic. “This paper has more evidence that supports the animal origin through the Huanan market.” The analysis published Thursday was based on genetic data gleaned from hundreds of samples gathered in and around the …

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As Republicans probe COVID’s origins, some see an attack on science; others say it’s long overdue
6 months, 3 weeks ago

As Republicans probe COVID’s origins, some see an attack on science; others say it’s long overdue

NPR  

As Republicans probe COVID’s origins, some see an attack on science; others say it’s long overdue toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Andrew Harnik/Getty Images At the start of a hearing on COVID’s origins last month, Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup said that the committee was not out to attack science. He also helped organize a letter in the Lancet that labeled the idea …

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What you need to know about bird flu in milk as experts desperate to stop outbreak
7 months, 3 weeks ago

What you need to know about bird flu in milk as experts desperate to stop outbreak

The Independent  

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More cows are being tested and tracked for bird flu. Here’s what that means
7 months, 4 weeks ago

More cows are being tested and tracked for bird flu. Here’s what that means

Associated Press  

U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand — and stop — the growing outbreak. “When we think of influenza A, cows are not typically in that conversation,” said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Flu viruses are notorious for …

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Column: Two Rutgers professors are accused of poisoning the debate over COVID’s origins. Here’s why
9 months ago

Column: Two Rutgers professors are accused of poisoning the debate over COVID’s origins. Here’s why

LA Times  

The former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been the target of noxious attacks over COVID-19’s origins. — Michael Worobey, University of Arizona In a tweet Aug. 25, 2022, Ebright’s colleague Bryce Nickels, a professor in the Rutgers department of genetics, called the “coordination” among virology researchers including Angela Rasmussen of the …

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Explained | A boost to the zoonoses theory regarding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
1 year, 9 months ago

Explained | A boost to the zoonoses theory regarding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

The Hindu  

The story so far: In the never-ending debate about the origin of the virus that set off the COVID-19 pandemic, there is now fresh grist for the mill for those who have held out for the zoonotic angle — that the infection skipped from animals to humans. Undisclosed genetic data from a food market in Wuhan has been unearthed and …

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Three years later, what we know: How did COVID start?
1 year, 9 months ago

Three years later, what we know: How did COVID start?

Al Jazeera  

Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, questions linger about the origins of the virus that shut down borders, forced humanity into their homes, battered economies and killed millions of people. In early February, the US Department of Energy’s intelligence agency said with “low confidence” that it believed the virus originated from …

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What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?
1 year, 9 months ago

What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?

NPR  

What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? Enlarge this image toggle caption Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been a topic of much scientific — and political — debate. Enlarge this image toggle caption Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Noel …

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Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck
2 years, 1 month ago

Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck

LA Times  

Security personnel near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in February 2021. between a group of virologists who assert their research points to a market origin and an alternate group of academics and online sleuths who argue there’s been an attempted coverup of a more likely lab origin.” The …

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He discovered the origin of the monkeypox outbreak — and tried to warn the world
2 years, 4 months ago

He discovered the origin of the monkeypox outbreak — and tried to warn the world

NPR  

He discovered the origin of the monkeypox outbreak — and tried to warn the world Enlarge this image toggle caption Dr. Dimie Ogoina Dr. Dimie Ogoina Five years ago, Dr. Dimie Ogoina saw perhaps the most important patient of his career – a patient whose infection would eventually be linked to the largest monkeypox outbreak in history. "He was the …

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China: Animal market in Wuhan was epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, says new study
2 years, 4 months ago

China: Animal market in Wuhan was epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, says new study

Firstpost  

The investigation required neighborhood-level study within Wuhan to be more certain the virus was ‘zoonotic’ – that it jumped from animals to people Washington: An animal market in China’s Wuhan really was the epicenter of the Covid pandemic, according to a pair of new studies in the journal Science published Tuesday that claimed to have tipped the balance in the …

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New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic
2 years, 4 months ago

New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic

LA Times  

Not long after the World Health Organization and China released a report last year dismissing the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a lab leak, scientists from major research institutions around the world noted the paucity of the published data, and advocated for a rigorous scientific investigation into the pandemic’s origins. “In a city covering more than 3,000 square …

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Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins

Associated Press  

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …

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Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins

Live Mint  

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …

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Seafood vendor at animal market in China's Wuhan was first known COVID-19 case: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

Seafood vendor at animal market in China's Wuhan was first known COVID-19 case: Study

India TV News  

The first confirmed case of symptomatic COVID-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, according to a new study which points out that the WHO inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease may have got the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. “His …

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First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study

India Today  

The first confirmed case of symptomatic Covid-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, according to a new study which points out that the WHO inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease may have got the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. “His …

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Column: A new research paper adds to the evidence that COVID-19 came from animals, not a Chinese lab
3 years, 1 month ago

Column: A new research paper adds to the evidence that COVID-19 came from animals, not a Chinese lab

LA Times  

Medical staff help a patient walk into the hospital in Wuhan, China, in January 2020 as the pandemic was beginning. A new peer-reviewed research paper points to the likelihood that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at a seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan, China, rather than from a Chinese laboratory studying bat viruses. Worobey’s finding that the earliest identified COVID-19 cases …

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Fresh look at earliest COVID cases points to live-animal market as most likely source
3 years, 1 month ago

Fresh look at earliest COVID cases points to live-animal market as most likely source

LA Times  

The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market sits closed on Jan. 21, 2020. But Scripps Institution microbiologist Kristian Andersen, who has long argued that an animal spillover was more likely than a lab leak, lauded Worobey’s research for “uncovering several new key insights.” The collective evidence “clearly points to the Huanan Market as a very likely source of the origin of …

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A timeline of COVID-19’s first weeks in Wuhan
3 years, 1 month ago

A timeline of COVID-19’s first weeks in Wuhan

LA Times  

Sometime in the waning days of 2019, a novel coronavirus began spreading in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It would take several weeks for local doctors and health officials to realize the new virus was responsible for a spate of mysterious cases of a pneumonia-like illness that did not respond to standard treatments. As physicians at various hospitals treated a …

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What is it about the Delta variant that makes it spread so easily?
3 years, 4 months ago

What is it about the Delta variant that makes it spread so easily?

LA Times  

Young people at a Mass celebration at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove wear face masks to protect themselves and others as the Delta variant spreads. “The virus has been very successful in humans from Day One, but this Delta variant just puts the earlier variants to shame,” said Michael Worobey, a virologist at the University of Arizona. “That means every …

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The Covid-19 pandemic almost didn’t happen, a new genetic dating study shows
3 years, 9 months ago

The Covid-19 pandemic almost didn’t happen, a new genetic dating study shows

CNN  

CNN — The coronavirus pandemic almost didn’t happen, a new study shows. “Given that, it’s hard to reconcile these low levels of virus in China with claims of infections in Europe and the U.S. at the same time,” Wertheim said in a statement. “I am quite skeptical of claims of COVID-19 outside China at that time.” The study indicates the …

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Worrying new coronavirus variants could be home grown as well as imported
3 years, 10 months ago

Worrying new coronavirus variants could be home grown as well as imported

CNN  

CNN — The 45-year-old patient had been sick with coronavirus for months. “This patient’s mutations include hallmarks of the new variants, like N501Y and 484K,” Li said. Then, as we saw these new variants emerging from the UK, from South Africa, from Brazil, we saw the same mutations.” The case, which Li and colleagues detailed late last year in a …

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Here’s why that second Covid shot can be such a doozy
3 years, 10 months ago

Here’s why that second Covid shot can be such a doozy

CNN  

CNN — So you finally got your coronavirus vaccine. The first dose of vaccine is like that first look at the stranger – the body’s immune system takes notice and takes some precautions, but the second time it’s even more primed to recognize and respond to that prompt. “With the first dose, you are having to generate an immune response …

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How will Covid-19 evolve in the future?
3 years, 11 months ago

How will Covid-19 evolve in the future?

BBC  

How will Covid-19 evolve in the future? Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images The worldwide effort to test and sequence samples of Covid-19 is helping to reveal new variants as they emerge Among the mutations Gupta and his colleagues identified was a deletion of two amino acids – known as H69 and V70 – in the spike protein sitting on the outside of …

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