- China attacks the United States: from political lies about the coronavirus
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April 28, 2020 The daily toll of coronavirus deaths in the United States continues to decline. According to John Hopkins University, there were 1,303 in the last 24 hours, against 1,330 yesterday. Still high the figure on the contagions that, from the beginning of the pandemic, touch the million (987.022).Maw: inevitable second wave
"In my opinion, a return of the virus is inevitable in the United States, I'm almost certain": these are the words of Anthony Fauci, immunologist and face of US science in the White House task force against coronavirus, on a possible second wave of infections . Speaking at a meeting of the Economic Club of Washington in a video conference - the US media report - Fauci explained that Sars-CoV-2 "has spread globally" and that "it will not disappear from the planet": they begin to see each other cases in parts of southern Africa. While saying "cautiously optimistic" on the development of a vaccine, the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases has launched a heavy warning on the return of the coronavirus if activities are reopened prematurely: "We risk a 'relapse' and find ourselves where we were a few weeks does". As for the return of the virus after the summer, Fauci said: "How we will deal with it will determine our fate. If the measures that are being discussed are applied, we will do it reasonably well, otherwise the country could see a difficult autumn and winter ".
Australia recruits' veterinary detectives' against pandemics Australian
scientists prepare to train agricultural and veterinary practitioners in 11 Asian countries as animal disease 'detectives' to help prevent future pandemics resulting from zoonotic diseases, which' jump up 'from animals to humans and make up three quarters of emerging infectious diseases. The program involves 40 veterinary school experts in Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific to train up to 160 operators in 11 Southeast Asian countries to identify pathogens and diseases, in surveillance methods, tracking trends and changes and in investigations of the onset of infections. The goal is to promptly identify pathogens before they can cause a greater onset.
Program manager Navneed Dhand of the University of Sydney's School of Veterinary Sciences explains that the urgency has never been clearer with the Covid-19 pandemic, believed to have originated in bats and passed on to the 'man in a' wet market 'in Wuhan, China. The € 2.8 million cost program is funded by the Canberra Department of Foreign Affairs and Commerce and is led by researchers from the University of Sydney, in collaboration with partners in different countries and with representatives of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the US Center for Disease Control. It will operate in the next three years in Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Vanuatu and Vietnam. The goal is to train a workforce of 20-25 operators.