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Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020, according to a study. The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, though the infection has not yet been identified in a living person, according to a study published in the scientific journal Cell. The bat virus, referred to as HKU5-CoV-2, uses the same human receptor as SARS-CoV-2, a strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The newly discovered bat...

Research was led by Shi Zhengli, a virologist known as the 'batwoman', who is best known for her work on coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by Shi Zhengli - a leading virologist known as the "batwoman" due to her extensive research on bat coronaviruses - at the Guangzhou Laboratory along with researchers from the Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology....

President Donald Trump said Friday that Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) appears as though he was “hit with a baseball bat” or “beat around” after seeing him on television Thursday. Trump made his comments at a press conference in North Carolina, responding to a reporter who asked if he was “disappointed” Schiff was not with him on his trip to the Tar Heel State and California to inspect hurricane and fire damage in the respective states. “I was told that Schiff was going to travel with us to California. I wasn’t thrilled, to be honest with you,” Trump said. “And I...

An art teacher at Bryant Middle School in southern Merced County, died last week of rabies. It's presumed Leah Seneng got rabies from a bat that had entered her classroom. Seneng told a friend that she noticed the bat in her classroom around mid-October. According to the California Department of Public Health, one of the most common sources of rabies in humans is from bats. The CDPH is warning the public not to handle bats, as bites often go unnoticed. They also warn you to wash the affected areas if you touch a bat and to seek emergency care if...

The death of Leah Seneng, 60, last week was confirmed to be from the horrific disease by Fresno County health officials, according to the report. Seneng had tried to save a bat she found lying in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos in mid-October, her dear friend Laura Splotch told the TV news outlet. “I don’t know if she thought it was dead or what cause it was laying around her classroom and she was trying to scoop it up and take it outside,” Splotch told ABC30.

New video shows the suspects who attacked a woman with a baseball bat last week on a New York City street, police say. *snip* Surveillance video shows her taking her cellphone from her bag when the suspects walk up from behind. One punches her while the other hits her with the baseball bat several times. Investigators believe the suspects were trying to take her bag, but they ran off emptyhanded.

A San Francisco store clerk has died from his injuries five days after he was brutally beaten with a baseball bat while trying to stop a thief stealing just two bottles of beer. Yowhannes “John” Tewelde, 60, never regained consciousness after suffering a major brain injury during the attack late Thursday at Richmond Market and died at a local hospital shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, his family announced. “John was a beloved member of the community, and even more loved by his family and friends,” a neighbor posted on a GoFundMe that raised money for his medical bills. Tewelde...

Modern Technology is often a wonderful thing making everyone much more productive. However, often times it comes back to bite you in the rear end, this couple didn't realize their camera was on while using Zoom to view a bat mitzvah. The young lady who was celebrating her Bat Mitzvah certainly has a story to tell for the rest of her life. To the Middle-Aged Couple, 45 MINUTES, really...

Bob Saget died after sustaining what appeared to be significant head trauma, according to a recently released autopsy report. The 65-year-old star was found unresponsive in his hotel bed in Orlando, Florida, on January 9. Last week, Saget's family announced that he had died after he "accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep." However, an autopsy report by Dr. Joshua Stephany, the chief medical examiner of Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, suggests the head injury was far more serious than one that could have been shrugged off. ... Dr....

EcoHealth Alliance documentation of 2018 submission casts doubt on agency's representation to Congress. ===================================================================================== Ataxpayer-funded nonprofit is contradicting the National Institutes of Health on when it notified the agency that China's Wuhan Institute of Virology unintentionally enhanced a bat coronavirus, raising the possibility that top public health officials made false statements to Congress. EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson Robert Kessler shared a screenshot from its account on the NIH eRA Commons website for grantees, showing it submitted its "year four" report April 13, 2018. Kessler also provided Just the News with a video recording of EcoHealth searching its NIH account for the...

An Illinois man died this month in the state's first human case of rabies since 1954, according to health officials on Tuesday.The Lake County man, in his 80s, awoke in mid-August to find a bat on his neck...The bat was captured and tested positive for rabies, but when health officials told the man he needed to start post-exposure rabies treatment, he declined, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) said...He subsequently died and a bat colony was found in his home.

A record-breaking bat that flew more than 1,200 miles (2,018 km) from London to Russia died after being attacked by a cat. The female Nathusius' pipistrelle bat, the size of a human thumb, was discovered in Russia's Pskov region. The bat, whose wing had a "London Zoo" marking, was rescued by a bat rehabilitation group but later died. "Her journey is an exciting scientific finding and another piece in the puzzle of bat migration. The movements of Nathusius' pipistrelles around the UK and between the UK and the continent remain largely mysterious." This record is topped by only one other...

A Nebraska zoo is recommending that nearly 200 campers and staff members get rabies shots after they were potentially exposed to a rabid bat earlier this month. Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium said that one of the 186 people participating in an overnight campout event at the facility on July 4 woke up to a wild bat flying around her head, according to The Associated Press. While an emergency medical official at the zoo said there were no bites or scratches found on the camper, the zoo located seven wild bats in the aquarium, one of which tested positive...

Sen. John Kennedy has slammed Dr. Fauci for claiming COVID-19 jumped from an animal to humans, and charged that the top doctor needs to address evidence supporting the theory the virus leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Louisiana senator spoke in an interview with Sean Hannity on hours after Fauci appeared on MSNBC to insist that he had always been open to the lab leak theory. Kennedy said: 'Every time I am asked about Dr. Fauci, I say the same thing. I know Dr. Fauci. I like Dr. Fauci. I respect Dr. Fauci. But Dr. Fauci needs to cut...

... an Air India flight which had taken off from Delhi airport early on Thursday returned back after pilot reported presence of bat to Air Traffic Control (ATC)

The cave entrance. (Chris Grooms) You may not give a pile of bat poop gathered over 4,300 years a second look – but to a group of scientists, it's provided an intriguing insight into how bat diets and therefore climate conditions have shifted over thousands of years. Taller than the average man (2 meters or 6-and-a-half feet), the pile of poop (also known as guano) records history in clear layers, much like sediments under a lake. By analyzing the layers back through time, the scientists have been able to figure out changes in the diets of the bats that have...

Missing American Feared a Victim of 'Dirty War' April 13, 2007 The Financial Times Guy Dinmore in Washington and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran Just why Robert Levinson, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and now private investigator, should venture into Iran to meet a American fugitive wanted for murder in the US remains a mystery that the highest Bush administration authorities are trying to unravel. As the Financial Times revealed this week, Mr Levinson disappeared on March 8 after a six-hour meeting on the Iranian island of Kish with Dawud Salahuddin, an American who converted to Islam and was...

Myotis nimbaensis, shown here, is a new species of bat named for the mountain range in which it is found, the Nimba Mountains in West Africa. Credit: © Bat Conservation International ====================================================== A group of scientists led by the American Museum of Natural History and Bat Conservation International have discovered a new species of a striking orange and black bat in a mountain range in West Africa. The species, which the researchers expect is likely critically endangered, underscores the importance of sub-Saharan “sky islands” to bat diversity. The species is described today in the journal American Museum Novitates. “In an...

========================================================================== A photograph appears to show a plane flying over Edwards Air Force base that's unlike any aircraft publicly acknowledged by the U.S. Air Force. The aircraft appears similar to the RQ-180, a high-altitude spy drone. The RQ-180’s existence has never been confirmed by the U.S. Air Force. ======================================================================== The image (above) depicts a flying wing-shaped aircraft leaving a contrail in its wake. An observer reportedly took the photo while the aircraft was over the Military Operating Area at Edwards Air Force Base in California. According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, the aircraft “was flying in a racetrack pattern...

A record-breaking ruling for the family of Bob Levinson, a former FBI Agent who vanished while in Iran 13-years ago. Thursday, a U.S. judge ruled Iran must pay Levinson's family $1.46 billion, the largest judgement for a case of this kind... Levinson disappeared in 2007 while working as a CIA contractor in Iran. His family immediately called on (Atty. David) McGee, who was Levinson's friend, to help bring him home... Earlier this year, Levinson's family announced they were convinced the husband and father of seven was dead. In a statement, they said the judgement was the "the first step in...