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  Gear CDC’s Disease Detectives Use – Wired Magazine (2018)

  January 28, 2020 at 10:00 pm / Human Nature, Video

  Disease and pandemics are scary. As the world is shaking with the news of a new corona virus outbreak in China it is informative to take a look into gear used by “the disease detectives” ie. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The movie Contagion (2011) has done a great job for educating public by depicting a rather probable scenario of a viral outbreak largely based on the SARS outbreak of 2003. The hugely successful BBC documentary The Hidden Life […]

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  Snakes in a Cave – Nate Dappen & Neil Losin (2014)

  January 24, 2020 at 8:36 pm / Natural history, Short Observations, Video, Wildlife Documentaries

  As the world is shaking with the news of a new corona virus outbreak in China, researchers have quickly identified the potential source of 2019-nCoV based on the spike forming glycoprotein structure. Just like the hugely informative movie Contagion (2011) depicting a realistic scenario this new virus was a bizarre sounding recombinant. The corona virus SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be a recombinant of a bat and a snake virus. At first, you may naturally ask how could this weird merger have […]

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