Fresh calls for the sale of live wild animals to be banned permanently from China’s food markets

Pangolin

NEWS AND OPINION: The Times newspaper reports (March 27) that Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney has said that there are animal viruses in nature i.e. in wild animal species, which are well adapted to infect humans (zoonotic pathogens). Further, viruses similar to those that cause Covid-19 have been discovered in pangolins seized …

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Bizarre humans: pets can’t get and transmit Covid-19 but they are being killed by their thousands in China

Saved cat

NEWS/OPINION: In a bizarre twist of fate, not only have humans created the Covid-19 pandemic out of cruelty towards wild animals, they are now killing thousands of domestic animals unnecessarily. Is there no end to the cruelty that humans can perpetrate upon animals? Isn’t it enough to create a viral pandemic through carelessness, negligence …

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Should China apologise for Covid-19?

We don't know the origin of Covid-19

NEWS/OPINION: Not a word of apology has come out of China for causing the damage done to the planet by the Covid-19 virus. I was waiting for an apology from President Xi Jinping. The virus is costing the planet trillions of dollars in lost economic trade. It is killing thousands of people and disrupting …

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Chinese scientist accused of sexism in study about link between ‘girls’ and cats

Removal of study

Science Direct.com have temporarily removed from their website a study that they had published several weeks ago on a possible causal link between the presence of women at a university and the number of cats in the area. The study was led by Yuhang Li. The study is entitled: Where there are girls, there …

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Cat in India faces deportation to China on Covid-19 fears

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NEWS/OPINION-Kaleeji Times: a controversy between People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in India and the Chennai quarantine facility at Chennai Port has broken out because of a cat which arrived in a container on a ship from China. The Chennai authorities believe that the cat may have contracted the Covid-19 virus and therefore …

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