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Biden Administration Strips Federal Funding From Nonprofit at Center of COVID Lab Leak Controversy

Federal officials say EcoHealth Alliance failed to properly report on its gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and to monitor safety conditions there.

Reason

Scientist fed classified information to China, says Canada intelligence report

Report says Xiangguo Qiu secretly worked with Wuhan Institute for Virology and posed a ‘threat to Canada’s economic security’

The Guardian - US

KSUM representatives visit Institute of Advanced Virology to explore opportunities for co-development

The Hindu

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Ultra-processed foods: here's what the evidence actually says about them

The perils of ultra-processed foods received widespread coverage in recent months – thanks in no small part to the publication and promotion of TV presenter and doctor of virology Chris Van Tulleken’s book Ultra-Processed People.

The Conversation

Zika: 888 houses in five villages of containment zone in Chickballapur under surveillance

The State Health Department, which is closely monitoring the situation in Chickballapur after a mosquito pool in Thalakayalbetta village of the district was found to be positive for Zika, has sent serum samples of 30 pregnant women from five villages in the containment zone to the National Institute of Virology…

The Hindu

PhD programme at Institute of Advanced Virology

The Hindu

Five golden rules for effective science communication – perspectives from a documentary maker

Over the past three years, people from all walks of life have learned a great deal about different branches of science. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many of us to information about virology and vaccine production. Environmental disasters in every part of the world have brought concepts from meteorology and climatology…

The Conversation

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Central and ICMR teams equipped with BSL-3 labs reach Kozhikode for on-ground testing of Nipah virus

ICMR's mobile BSL-3 lab sent to Kozhikode to test for Nipah virus.

The Hindu

US suspends Wuhan Institute funds over COVID stonewalling

The Biden administration has halted the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s access to federal funding after the lab failed to provide documents about safety and security measures, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: If a lab leak led to COVID-19, there are truths we must not ignore

Since 2019 when COVID-19 emerged in China, scientists worldwide have been trying to ascertain the origin of the virus.

Chicago Tribune

Biological Terrorism: China engineered Covid-19 "bioweapon" to purposely infect people, reveals Wuhan researcher

A researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology has made astonishing claims about the coronavirus, saying the virus was engineered by China as a "bioweapon" and that his colleagues were given four strains of the virus to find out which could spread best. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Declassified US intelligence report finds no evidence of coronavirus 'lab leak' from Wuhan institute

A declassified U.S. intelligence report further refutes the idea that SARS-CoV-2 "leaked" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

LiveScience

Three Wuhan scientists 'world's first Covid patients when experiment went wrong'

So-called Patients Zero included Ben Hu, Ping Yu and Yan Zhu who were all researching SARS-like viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to an investigation.

Daily Record

Three Wuhan scientists 'were world's first Covid patients after experiment went wrong'

Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have been suspected as the source of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new investigation

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Wuhan scientists were 'creating world's most deadly coronaviruses' weeks before pandemic

A trove of intercepted communications, the full details of which are being held as top-secret, has revealed that scientists in China were experimenting with deadly viruses, which ended up getting out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and laying the world to waste

Wales Online

Covid could have leaked from a lab, says former top Chinese scientist

Wuhan is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), one of China’s top national laboratories known to have spent years studying coronaviruses

Daily Mirror

China 'tried to keep Covid outbreak a secret' and first death earlier than believed

A Senate investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has presented further circumstantial evidence linking the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the leak - though admits there's no "smoking gun"

The Hindu

Strengthen virology research in Kerala, says NITI Ayog member

Urging researchers to pursue excellence, Dr Paul said the country wanted relentless hard work.

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The Conversation

COVID origins debate: what to make of new findings linking the virus to raccoon dogs

The origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, has long been a topic of heated debate. While many believe SARS-CoV-2 spread to humans from an animal at Wuhan’s Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, others have argued the virus was accidentally leaked from a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Daily Mirror

Expert explains gross reason why you're probably flushing the toilet wrong

In bad news for most of us, a molecular virology researcher has revealed one common method for flushing the toilet could be spreading nasty germs around your home

Roll Call

COVID-19 origins probe plods on with no clear resolution - Roll Call

Top Republicans are ramping up investigations on whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Salon

FBI director believes lab leak theory

The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, fanned the flames of speculation that blame the Chinese government

Bangkok Post

Pandemic to end 'this year' due to hybrid immunity

The Covid-19 pandemic will come to an end this year, according to virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University.

Bangkok Post

Covid-19 now becoming a seasonal bug

Covid-19 is becoming a seasonal virus in Thailand, primarily active during two periods of the year, said Yong Poovorawan, director of the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.

The Independent UK

Two new Covid subvariants have taken over in the US

“BA.5 is essentially declining quickly, probably soon to be gone,” says the director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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