Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

This concern is particularly more relevant in South Asia, where recent increases in Nipah virus cases reported in India and Bangladesh suggest more frequent human-bat interactions in the region. Covid ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat In December 2019, a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases surfaced in Wuhan, China. Within weeks, the world was watching. Within months, it was locked down. More than six years ...

In Shanghai at the start of 2020, as the life-changing COVID-19 pandemic erupted, two Filipino diplomats were given an almost impossible, unthinkable and certainly dangerous task: bringing home 100 ...

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The latest Nipah virus cluster in West Bengal has reignited fears of a high‑fatality outbreak with global reach, even as officials insist the risk beyond India remains low.

In recent weeks, narratives claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic had been planned since 2017 have resurfaced on social media. A number of posts on Facebook and Instagram accuse Bill Gates and the late ...

In the case of Covid19, the events in February 2020 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo – the jewel of the Italian Alps – were the origins of the pandemic. Without their role, Covid19 might have been a ...

Congress MP Manish Tewari questioned the timing of an alleged Chinese nuclear test on June 22, 2020, a week after the Galwan clash and amid the COVID-19 pandemic, linking it to the origins of the ...

A 25-year-old nurse died of cardiac arrest 2 days after testing negative for Nipah. Doctors say she died of a secondary lung infection she picked up in the CCU. No spread of Nipah, say doctors.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Without readiness preparation, a quickly transmitting virus could cause a widespread human epidemic. Prevention requires better ...