AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
A new study has found that the coronavirus virus may have been transmitted to humans via the seafood market in Wuhan causing a global pandemic. Was it a few raccoon dogs, inside a metal cage and stacked on top of a chicken coop? Or perhaps a lone red fox, curled up in...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
Not only do we need antibiotics to treat infections, we need them to prevent infections in the first place. Sadly, we have misused and abused antibiotics for decades and are now reaping the unwanted rewards. Bacterial infections are common everyday medical problems...
AnimalAgri, Blogs, Coronavirus
Zoonotic diseases that jump from animals to humans are causing millions of people to die annually. Destroying areas like rainforests will worsen matters. Spanish flu, bird flu, Marburg virus, Lassa fever, Ebola, HIV, Nipah, West Nile, Sars, Chikungunya, Zika and...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
The H5N6 bird flu and other similar viruses caused by the farming of fowl for human consumption could impact the global battle against COVID-19. Two more human cases of avian influenza A(H5N6) have been detected in China, the Center for Health Protection (CHP) of the...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
Factory farms are a breeding ground for disease. Chicken farms are now the source of several strains of bird-flu that are deadly to humans. One day last December, 101,000 chickens at a gigantic farm near the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia started to collapse and...
ClimateChange, Coronavirus, GoodNews
The COP26 negotiations are seen as the most crucial gathering on climate change since the Paris Agreement, but green groups say there are major issues with travel, quarantine costs and new surges in Covid-19. Green groups say that the COP26 climate conference due to...
