Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track origin of COVID-19
Stung Treng, CambodiaReuters Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago. Two samples from horseshoe bats were collected in 2010 in Stung Treng province near Laos and kept in […]
Explainer: Rapid spread of China coronavirus fuels global alarm
Reuters International alarm over the coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China in December is driven by its rapid spread and the fact that infectious disease experts cannot yet know how deadly or contagious it is. Within weeks, the virus has infected nearly 8,000 people in China and, according to latest figures, killed 212. Close to […]