Monkeypox cases have more than doubled. In Britain a total of nine cases have been reported with 11 more cases to be announced shortly. It… Read More »Spike in cases of monkeypox in Europe and North America
We have a report which establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Covid-19 started in China. Let’s sue for compensation.
NEWS AND COMMENT – HONG KONG: I sense that there is a certain amount of jitteriness in Hong Kong about the transmission of Covid from… Read More »Some hamsters were Covid positive before export from The Netherlands to Hong Kong
This is not a criticism of hedgehogs. We all adore them. And this news shouldn’t change our attitude towards them in any way. It’s a… Read More »Hedgehogs responsible for pathogen considered to be one of the greatest threats to human health
A new coronavirus which is similar to Covid-19 and which has been labelled RhGB01 has been found in British bats by Ivana Murphy a University… Read More »Covid-like virus RhGB01 found in British bats
In an interesting twist, the US Geological Survey has advised American researchers to wear personal protective equipment and take Covid-19 tests before handling bats in… Read More »Bats in the wild are being protected from getting coronavirus from humans
There is a fear in some quarters that Covid-19 will mutate in an animal reservoir where it will then be transmitted to people who will… Read More »Ferrets inoculated against Covid-19 to prevent reservoir of mutated variant
More than 200 citizens of Denmark have been infected with a mutant strain of coronavirus that has spread from farmed mink to humans. This information… Read More »Denmark: mutant strain of coronavirus infects 200 people
Advance the video to 13 minutes 23 seconds and you will hear Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first Minister, say that the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) is nobody’s… Read More »Nicola Sturgeon says Covid-19 is no one’s fault. Influenced by China?
Researchers are looking at how to limit infections in other species of animal in order to prevent a reservoir of the Covid-19 disease in the future.
COMMENT ON NEWS: Wuhan in China, the alleged source of the coronavirus is thriving and humming along nicely, we are told. Everything is pretty well… Read More »Better sanitation and hygiene at China’s wet markets
It pays to protect nature. It pays because the better you protect nature the less likelihood there is of people being infected by a zoonotic… Read More »Protecting nature protects people by minimising zoonotic disease carrying animals
Covid-19 is said by CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) in America to infect cats and dogs and a few other types of animal.… Read More »Confusion as to whether dogs can become infected with Covid-19
All 93,000 mink at a farm in Aragon, Spain are to be slaughtered under a government order after 80% of a sample were found to… Read More »Covid-19: Farmed mink infected by farmworkers who in turn were infected by the mink