As seen on the March 2020 issue of Philippine Tribune Before its closure, exotic animals — from snakes to civet cats — were available at a wet market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that is now known as ground zero of a new virus killing people with pneumonia-like symptoms and infecting growing numbers […]
Category: Pandemic
Billionaire Jack Ma, pledged $14.5 million to fight coronavirus
As seen on the March 2020 issue of Philippine Tribune Tech billionaire Jack Ma has pledged USD14.5 million (AUD 21.5 million) towards fighting the coronavirus outbreak. Ma, who is China’s richest man and the founder of ecommerce giant Alibaba, will donate the money through his eponymous charitable foundation to support the development of a coronavirus […]
GLOBAL PANDEMIC LOOMS
By Bernie V. LopezAs seen on the March 2020 issue of Philippine Tribune If prayer can save us from a volcano, can it save us from a virus? The Bubonic Plague in the 14th Century killed about 50 million, which was 25% of the European population then. The Spanish Influenza in 1918 killed about 50 […]
Eating wild animals caused coronavirus outbreak in China
Snakes were openly sold in the seafood market in Wuhan. Such practice raised the possibility that the 2019-nCoV might have jumped from the host species → bats → to snakes, and then to humans at the beginning of this coronavirus outbreak. Researchers found that the protein codes in the 2019-nCoV were most similar to those […]