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Tag: COVID-19

Genetic Tracing Links SARS-CoV-2 With Animals at Wildlife Market

Genetic Tracing Links SARS-CoV-2 With Animals at Wildlife Market

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 Supertrooper Leave a comment

The virus behind COVID-19 appears to have first leapt to humans from captive wildlife at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, and now a new study identifies specific animals that likely carried the virus. The new analysis – of metagenomic RNA data collected shortly after the market was shut down – also supports accumulating evidence […]

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As ‘Zombie’ Deer Disease Spreads, Scientists Look for Answers

As ‘Zombie’ Deer Disease Spreads, Scientists Look for Answers

June 14, 2024March 15, 2025 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Late last year federal officials discovered the carcass of a mule deer buck near Yellowstone Lake in a remote region of Yellowstone National Park. Its cause of death was chronic wasting disease (CWD), experts said, making this the first confirmed death of an animal in the park from the disease. The discovery was alarming, but […]

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Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

May 10, 2024May 4, 2024 Supertrooper 3 Comments

There was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally miserable. But no one could say for sure what ailed them, even as the animals began to die. Necropsies can help to identify a cause of death, but normally, […]

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Rebuilding from the Ashes: The Story of the 2020 California Wildfires

Rebuilding from the Ashes: The Story of the 2020 California Wildfires

March 18, 2024June 14, 2024 Supertrooper Leave a comment

The year 2020 is one that most people would like to erase from their memories. Not only was the planet under the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, but 2020 was also the year that saw record-breaking wildfires in California. Record-breaking is probably the wrong word to use because it suggests something positive, but the 2020 […]

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