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Scientists find 18 more viruses from China's wet markets
The origins of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far resulted in 253.6 million cases o…
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A baseless conspiracy theory is brewing on China's Twitter, with social media users accusing the US of creating and leaking the monkeypox virus
People on China's Twitter-like Weibo posited, without evidence, that a US-linked terrorist group wa…
Cheryl Teh
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A researcher in China has died from the rare 'Monkey B' virus after dissecting 2 primates
The Chinese CDC said a Beijing-based researcher, 53, became ill after dissecting two monkeys while …
Cheryl Teh
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2 reasons China's mysterious respiratory illness outbreak isn't the new COVID, according to the WHO
Parts of China have seen a surge in respiratory illnesses in children. But health officials said co…
Kim Schewitz
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Covid-causing Omicron BF.7 variant highly transmissible but not as severe as Delta variant, say doctors
Just as Indians were getting ready to ring in the new year with a bang after two years of pandemic-…
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Trump cut funding for a group researching bat-to-human virus transmissions after unfounded conspiracy theories linked it to a Wuhan lab, report says
EcoHealth Alliance, a New York research group, was accused of sending money to the Wuhan lab at the…
Rosie Perper
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A new virus in China sparked panic after jumping from shrews to humans, but experts say it probably isn't as concerning as COVID. Here's why.
No one has died of Langya virus infection to date, and researchers have not found any evidence of h…
Andrea Michelson
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A lab worker at Taiwan's leading research institute tested positive for COVID-19 after a mouse that had been infected with the virus bit her
Taiwan's health officials are investigating if the bite from an infected mouse was responsible for …
Bethany Dawson
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A new study says Coronavirus may have crawled through faulty toilet pipes bringing back a SARS nightmare
Scientists also confirmed that coronavirus particles were present in washrooms of apartments…
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Double-masking reduces transmission
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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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No, the coronavirus did not recently mutate to become more transmissible: 'People are still getting the same virus we saw in the spring'
Scientists are pushing back on a new study that says the new coronavirus has mutated to be more tra…
Aylin Woodward
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Chinese lockdown could have prevented 7 lakh cases of Covid-19 transmission say researchers
Researchers claim that China's control measures during the first 50 days of the novel coronavirus p…
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The coronavirus may have spread through bathroom drains 12 stories apart in a high-rise, raising concerns about fecal transmission
Under certain conditions, aerosols from feces could travel upward through an apartment building aft…
Aria Bendix
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China allowed people to travel outside despite knowing the risk of COVID-19 transmission: Pompeo
"Those are the kinds of decisions that, as you stare at them, it is unambiguous that they created i…
PTI
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The WHO changed its coronavirus timeline to say it got its first report about the virus on the internet, not from Chinese authorities
The agency says its China office found out about the "viral pneumonia" cases from reading an online…
Alexandra Ma
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After losing manipulator status, China's currency stumbles amid Wuhan virus outbreak
China's currency tumbled in offshore trading Friday, leaving the yuan weakened at the end of a week…
Gwen Everett
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All you need to know about the new Langya Henipavirus reported in China
A total of 35 Langya Henipavirus cases have been reported in China.This zoonotic virus can spread f…
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Coins carry viruses better than paper money, experts say as China begins sterilizing cash
According to some studies, lower-denomination bills like ones and fives, which are some of our most…
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China banned a video game called 'Coronavirus Attack' where players stop zombies from spreading the virus and win badges like 'Liberate Hong Kong'
"Coronavirus Attack" contains several references that criticize China. The country has a long histo…