The hantavirus outbreak highlights rising zoonotic threats driven by climate change and human intrusion into wildlife habitats, raising urgent questions about global preparedness for future outbreaks
A viral video showing rodents feeding on leftover food outside Gandhi Hospital has raised hygiene concerns. GHMC halted free food distribution near the entrance and launched a sanitation drive after the hospital administration alerted civic authorities.
A 70-year-old man, Raji Reddy, who gives the chit after writing a mantra in ancient Telugu on the paper, suggests to the farmers to keep the chit in a pot or a bottle and tie it to a stick, which should be three metres in height, and plant the stick in the field.
London: Swedish scientists have identified a new coronavirus commonly found in red-backed voles — small, stocky rodents similar to field mice. The study of approximately 260 bank voles caught around Grimso, in Orebro County in Sweden shows that the virus is well established in the red-backed voles, said the team from the Zoonosis Science Center […]
New York: Some ancestral rodents likely had repeated infections with SARS-like coronaviruses, leading them to acquire tolerance or resistance to the pathogens, raising the possibility that modern rodents may be reservoirs of SARS-like viruses, according to a new study. In the study, researchers at the Princeton University in the US, performed an evolutionary analysis of […]
Further research will have to determine whether humans can tolerate a high dose of favipiravir, favipiravir -- a broad-spectrum antiviral drug used in Japan to treat influenza -- for four to five days.
