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Lethal bat-borne virus sparks new pandemic fears
Published on 30/10/2023
» MARUTHONKARA, India: It was more than two weeks before doctors even realised what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds of people had been exposed to the bat pathogen.
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Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track origin of Covid-19
Published on 20/09/2021
» STUNG TRENG, Cambodia: Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago.
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'No evidence' Thai bats to blame for Covid-19 outbreak
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/03/2021
» Local researchers attempted to allay public fears by saying the coronavirus found in a horseshoe bat population in Chachoengsao last year is not a strain that is transmissible to humans, after several reports suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic may have originated in Thailand.
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Dept slams claims virus came from Thailand
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/02/2021
» The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on Wednesday dismissed news reports suggesting Thailand was the source of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying it had conducted tests on various types of wildlife claimed to have contained the virus that causes the disease and found the claims were untrue.
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Chula to develop cheap Covid-19 diagnostics
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 15/02/2021
» Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre under Chulalongkorn University announced yesterday that it is developing a Covid-19 diagnostic tool using a similar coronavirus strain to that found in local horseshoe bat populations.
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A popular hangout for bats, tourists and now Covid sleuths
New York Times, Published on 17/01/2021
» RATCHABURI: The bat caves reeked of bat.
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Beware of mutant Covid, says expert
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/08/2020
» Thailand should begin preparing for possible "genetic code alterations" of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19, warned Thiravat Hemachudha, director of the Health Science Centre of Emerging Diseases at Chulalongkorn University, on Thursday.
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100 crowned bats captured for research into virus
News, Published on 14/06/2020
» A team of researchers and wildlife officials has captured more than 100 crowned bats from a cave in Chanthaburi's Pong Nam Ron district for research into the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Chanthaburi bats tested for virus
Published on 13/06/2020
» Researchers have begun collecting samples from horseshoe bats in Chanthaburi to test them for coronavirus amid concerns they may pose a threat to local residents.
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Last century's epidemics more deadly than today's
AFP, Published on 05/02/2020
» PARIS: Before the emergence of the new coronavirus, which has sparked worldwide panic, other epidemics had struck earlier in the 21st century, but were less deadly than the previous century's pandemics.
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