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Future zoonotic disease pandemics set to turn deadlier, kill 12 times as many people by 2050 due to climate change
The team found that from 1963 to 2019, 3,150 outbreaks had claimed a staggering 17,232 lives in 24 …
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Coronavirus epidemic first hit over 21,000 years ago, says a study
The most recent common ancestor of sarbecoviruses — the family of coronaviruses to which SARS-CoV b…
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Long-suffering SARS patients offer clues about the worrisome futures that may await COVID-19 long-haulers
A SARS researcher thinks it's possible that some people with long-lasting COVID-19 symptoms may nev…
Aria Bendix
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Covid global health emergency hopefully ends next year: WHO chief
Addressing a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that…
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Inside a DC doctor's ascension to Joe Biden's A-Team
These are the top stories written by Business Insider's healthcare team for August 19.
Blake Dodge
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How the coronavirus compares to SARS, swine flu, Zika, and other epidemics
However, both of those illnesses were far more contained than COVID-19, the disease caused by the n…
Mark Abadi,Havovi Cooper
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5 ways to determine if you've gotten accurate coronavirus information, according to an epidemiologist
We in public health always have to fight parallel wars during an outbreak: the contagion itself, an…
Syra Madad
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7 top doctors and researchers share the steps we need to take now to be ready for the next pandemic
"There's one area though where the world isn't making much progress," Bill Gates said in 2018. "And…
Yeji Jesse Lee
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Symptoms of coronavirus — and some precautions to stay away from the epidemic
The number of cases have been growing rapidly. India too reported the death of a Thai girl who h…
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Novavax begins clinical trial of Covid-19 vaccine in Australia
US-based biotechnology company Novavax has started enrolling participants in Australia for a clinic…
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Switzerland's infectious disease chief says children under age 10 can hug their grandparents. Not all experts agree.
Switzerland is lifting social distancing rules to allow children to hug their grandparents. Some re…
Shira Feder
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Asian airports could lose $3 bn revenue due to Coronavirus
"Against this gloomy background of sharp declines in traffic and passenger throughput, airpo…
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The coronavirus epidemic could wipe out $43 billion of luxury sales in 2020
Store and mall closures in mainland China are preventing these customers from shopping in their own…
Mary Hanbury
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China is parachuting 6,000 medics into Wuhan to fight the deadly coronavirus as the number of infected outstrips SARS
China's National Health Commission (NHC) said Tuesday that by the end of the day, around 6,000 medi…
Will Martin
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Here's why one expert says the rest of Wall Street needs to stop comparing coronavirus to SARS
In the scramble to predict the potential US market fallout of coronavirus, much of Wall Street has …
Gwen Everett
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'China is to blame because the culture': Republican senator mistakenly blames China for MERS and swine flu epidemics
The Swine Flu, otherwise known as the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, was first discovered in humans in …
David Choi
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Pharma giant Sanofi is developing a vaccine to fight the deadly coronavirus outbreak using its previous research on SARS
The French pharma giant has begun researching a vaccine to counteract the ongoing coronavirus outbr…
Andrew Dunn
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China confirmed that the deadly Wuhan virus sweeping the country can spread from human to human, increasing the risk of an epidemic
Health authorities across Asia are ramping up measures to spot and contain people carrying the dise…
Eliza Relman
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The genetic code of the Wuhan coronavirus shows it's 80% similar to SARS. New research suggests a potential way to neutralize the virus.
A second study, led by scientists from Fudan University in Shanghai and the Chinese Center for Dise…
Aylin Woodward
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China's Communist Party is purging local officials as public anger mounts at coronavirus epidemic that has killed more than 1,000
According to the BBC, the deputy director of the local Red Cross was demoted for "dereliction of du…