The CIA joins the anti-China bandwagon on COVID origins, despite lack of any evidence
On Saturday, new CIA Director john Ratcliffe made public the CIA’s reassessment that shifts from an inconclusive position to ...
New tool can detect fast-spreading SARS-COV-2 variants before they take off
Researchers have developed a powerful tool that can detect variants of SARS-CoV-2 with high transmission potential before they become widespread. This approach could significantly support public ...
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CIA Now Says, With ‘Low Confidence,’ That Lab Leak Was Most Likely Source of Covid Pandemic
The Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source for the ...
Trump’s CIA Now Backs Controversial Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
The CIA says both a natural origin and a lab leak "remain plausible" as potential sources of covid-19, following a review of ...
Is China’s AI DeepSeek biased? Stays silent on China’s issues, censors responses because…
This is similar to how Chinese news platforms and apps, which are used worldwide, refrain from publishing negative news about ...
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SARS escaped Beijing lab twice
The latest outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China, with eight confirmed or suspected cases so far and hundreds quarantined, involves two researchers who were working with the ...
The 7 signs of ‘little-known virus’ on the rise in the UK – and 6 of the best ways to protect yourself
CASES of a virus that led to concerns in China of another Covid-like pandemic have risen in England, according to official figures. The UK has seen an assortment of winter illnesses surge this ...
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How flight helped bats become invincible to viruses
Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...
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Did Covid originate in Wuhan lab? Calls for probe into 'China virus' grow in US
It was on January 30, 2020, that WHO declared Covid-19 a global public health emergency. The novel coronavirus would end up killing nearly seven million people. Five years on, and with Donald Trump ...
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Top SARs official meets Macau key officials individually
The country’s top official in charge of Hong Kong and Macau affairs, Xia Baolong, has so far met three of Macau’s five ...
‘Extremely unlikely’: China rejects CIA claim that Covid-19 ‘more likely’ came from lab leak
China said it was "extremely unlikely" Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US CIA said it believed the virus had more ...
Trump’s beef with the World Health Organization is personal
Trump has long charged that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus covered up China’s responsibility for the Covid pandemic, and also aided Democrats who called Trump’s own move to shut the ...