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The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has already been linked to three deaths, even as the WHO assures us it is not another COVID. But iPINIONS notes that cruise ships were floating petri dishes long before COVID, thanks to norovirus outbreaks, environmental dumping, and passengers packed together socializing like sardines. Now Trump’s WHO withdrawal adds another layer… Read more.
On Sunday, California became the first state to (re)issue sweeping stay-at-home and lockdown orders. This, in a Groundhog-Day effort to fight the second wave of Covid-19, which is breaking out across the country. The vast region of Southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay area and a large swath of the Central Valley are… Read more.
I know that’s a provocative title. But nothing justifies it quite like the true story about the origins of Ebola. It just so happens that National Geographic is dramatizing that story in a TV series called the The Hot Zone. It premieres tonight. That said, With the Democratic Republic of Congo facing its deadliest Ebola… Read more.
