Bangladesh reports first Nipah virus fatality of 2024
Bangladesh on Monday reported its first death from the brain-damaging Nipah virus this year, when a man died after drinking raw date juice. The virus is transmitted to humans through contact with the body fluids of infected bats, pigs, and other people, and first appeared in Malaysia in 1999 during an outbreak that affected farmers […]
Chinese lab mapped COVID-19 virus weeks before China told the world
Chinese researchers reportedly identified and mapped the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) virus weeks before China notified the world, according to a shocking new report. . This surprising finding raises serious concerns about China's transparency regarding the initial coronavirus outbreak. Two weeks earlier, on December 28, 2019, Chinese researchers had completed a near-complete sequence of the […]
Researchers Work To Utilize Zika Virus To Heal Certain Childhood Cancer
An adult female insect is observed under a microscope at the Sun Yat-sen University and University of Michigan Joint Center for Tropical Disease Vector Control in Guangzhou, China, on June 21, 2016. Considered the world's largest mosquito factory, the institute is breeding millions of male mosquitoes for research that could be key in the race […]