- Are humans to blame for the coronavirus? How deforestation gives rise to pandemics
Are humans to blame for the rise in infectious disease we're experiencing worldwide? In this episode of Think Again, NBC News correspondent Andrew Stern investigates the link between deforestation, habitat change and pandemics. From Zika to West Nile, Ebola to SARS, Nipah to CoVid-19, deforestation has had a hand in many of the world's worst viral outbreaks.
read more ...3 hours ago - World Health chief to world leaders: ‘Please don’t politicize this virus’
“For God’s sake, we have lost more than 60,000 citizens of the world,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a passionate appeal to world leaders. “If you don't want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it.”
read more ...6 hours ago - Taiwan slams WHO for ‘groundless and false accusations’ of racism
“This kind of slanderous behavior is highly irresponsible,” said Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Joanne Ou. “The concept of racism does not exist in Taiwan.”
read more ...7 hours ago - Saudi officials announce Yemen cease-fire amid pandemic
Proposed talks would be the first face-to-face peace negotiations among the Saudis, Houthis and Yemeni government since the war started.
read more ...10 hours ago - Hopes for at-home fingerprick coronavirus test dashed after accuracy is questioned
"Sadly, the tests we have looked at to date have not performed well," Sir John Bell, the professor heading up the tests for the British government.
read more ...21 hours ago - Quarantined drag queens land TV show in Israel
Amid a nationwide lockdown, two drag performers decided to put on a variety show in their own living room. The show was just picked up by a TV network.
read more ...1 day ago - No murder charges in case of trans woman burned to death in Indonesia
The suspects, who doused a transgender woman in gasoline and set her on fire, could be charged with physical violence, carrying a maximum sentence of 12 years.
read more ...1 day ago - Ecuador builds emergency cemeteries amid rising deaths, coronavirus cases
“At the cemetery, they will be buried person by person, without cost to the families,” says the government's coordinator handling the country's coronavirus deaths.
read more ...1 day ago - China lifts lockdown in Wuhan, where coronavirus first emerged
Though the country’s official numbers have been called into question, China reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since the pandemic started.
read more ...2 days ago - U.S. reports 1,200 coronavirus deaths in one day as China lifts lockdown
Nation's top infectious diseases expert said he is "cautiously optimistic" that worst projections may be avoided "if we keep our foot on the accelerator."
read more ...2 days ago