Tag: Zoonotic diseases
It’s wrong to blame bats for the coronavirus epidemic
Peter Alagona, University of California, Santa Barbara
Genomic research showing that the COVID-19 coronavirus likely originated in bats has produced heavy media coverage and widespread...
Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens...
Richard Bowen, Colorado State University and Alan Rudolph, Colorado State University
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now...
Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak...
Haitao Guo, University of Pittsburgh; Guangxiang “George” Luo, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Shou-Jiang Gao, University of Pittsburgh
Snakes – the Chinese krait and...
Influenza’s wild origins in the animals around us
Jonathan Runstadler, Tufts University
In the early 20th century, the leading cause of death was infectious disease. Epidemics erupted with little warning, seemingly out of...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
