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[/news/coronavirus/index.html Coronavirus] was likely spreading in much of the U.S. last December - weeks before China told the officially recognized the new virus, a new study suggests. Blood collected by the Red Cross between December 13 and January 17 was later sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ([/news/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-cdc/index.html CDC]) to be tested for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tour thái lan giá rẻ] antibodies to coronavirus. Testing revealed antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19 in 39 samples from blood donated between December 13 and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tour thái lan giá rẻ] December 16. Those donations were made in [/news/california/index.html California], Oregon, and Washington. Another 67 samples taken between December 30 and January 17 from donors in the Midwest and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tour đi thái lan] Northeast were positive for antibodies, according to the Wa[# Previous][# Previous] [# 1] [# Next] [/health/article-9005605/Almost-county-America-coronavirus-hotspot-government-map-reveals.html How USA has become one giant hotspot: 1,172 Americans are...] [/health/article-9002605/More-ONE-children-coronavirus-NO-symptoms-infection.html More than ONE-THIRD of children with coronavirus have NO...] Share this article Share The first U.S. case of coronavirus was not reported until January 19. It was only 12 day earlier, on January 8, that the World Health Organization (WHO) said the bizarre pneumonia sickening people in China was likely caused by an altogether new virus. Chinese authorities have notified the WHO of a cluster of unexplained illnesses on December 31. The virus was isolated and its genetic makeup was sequence by January 7. At that time, both the Chinese government and the WHO were urging calm, insisting that the virus was only spreading from people who had symptoms and did not pose a major threat to people outside China's Hubei Province. Even the first case [http://www.channel4.com/news/identified identified] in the U.S. - in a Washington state man who had recently returned from China - was not an indication that coronavirus was going to take hold in the U.S., officials said at the time. We now know that it already was taking hold. Previous genetic sequencing studies have shown that coronavirus was likely already on both coasts of the U.S. by mid- to late-January, starting to circulate in broader communities in February. But [http://www.superghostblogger.com/?s=testing testing] of blood donated to the Red Cross confirms what the studies of coronavirus genomes suggested: COVID-19 was here, long before Americans knew it. The new study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, tested samples from 7,389 blood donations for antibodies to the virus. Antibodies were present in 106 - 1.4 percent - of the donations collected between mid-December and mid-January. The use of antibodies to assess how prevalent the virus is has been questioned. Antibodies fade over time, with some studies suggesting that they become undetectable within two or three months of infection. There is also the possibility that blood could react to testing if someone had antibodies to one of the hundreds of other types of coronaviruses in the environment. But 90 of the Red Cross samples were tested for antibodies very specific to SARS-CoV-2 - immune proteins that the scientists had made sure were not cross-reactive with test for other coronaviruses. Of the 90, 84 samples were positive for these very specific antibodies. In the batch of samples taken from later blood donations - made between December 17 and December 30, the scientist found that 67 were positive for coronavirus antibodies. These samples came from donors in Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin or Iowa and Connecticut or Rhode Island. So not only was coronaviru already on the West Coast before the first U.S. case was confirmed there, it was already in states on the other side of the country before the Washington patient was identified. President Trump was perhaps the most promise voice in a chorus that blamed China for 'covering up' the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in the early days of the pandemic's global spread. China's Communist Party has a poor track record for disease outbreaks and transparency. <div class="art-ins mol-factbox health" data-version="2" id="mol-b6d07180-341a-11eb-8974-6f898e53e517" website was spreading in the US by December 17, study finds

These Snakes Disembowel Living Toads For Gruesome Meals Of Their Organs That Last Hours

2021-01-01T17:57:38Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> [ Enlarge Image] A kukri snake disembowels a toad in Thailand. Winai Suthanthangjai Snakes famously like to swallow prey in a big gulp, but snakes discovered in Thailand have developed a horrifyingly different feeding habit that involves disemboweling toads while they're still alive. A team led by Danish herpetologist Henrik Bringsoe captured this novel snacking strategy on camera. The researchers described it as "a hitherto unknown feeding mode among snakes" in a [ paper published in the journal Herpetozoa] this month. CNET Science From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every week. The small-banded kukri snake lives in Thailand and eats Asian black-spotted toads, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tua du lịch thái lan] which secrete a toxin on their necks and backs to deter predators. The snakes seem to have found a way around that complication. Bringsoe recorded three instances where a [http://www.gameinformer.com/search/searchresults.aspx?q=snake%20cut snake cut] open the side of a toad, stuck its head inside and pulled out the organs one by one. [ Enlarge Image] This is the kukri snake that swallowed a toad whole. Kanjana Nimnuam "The fights we saw lasted for up to a few hours, depending on the organs the snake would pull out first," [ Bringsoe wrote in a blog post for the journal's publisher Pensoft]. In a fourth instance, an adult kukri snake swallowed a toad whole, leading to plenty of questions about the feeding behavior. Are the snakes avoiding the toxin by going for the organs? Are smaller toads less toxic and safer to eat? The researchers don't have answers yet. If you made it this far and are worried about snake nightmares, you can take some comfort from this: "Perhaps you'd be pleased to know that kukri snakes are, thankfully, harmless to humans," Bringsoe said. You still wouldn't want to be bitten by a kukri snake, however. The reptiles inject an anticoagulant that causes wounds to bleed for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tour thái lan] hours "so your finger would feel as if cut apart." Sleep well. [#comments Comments] [/topics/sci-tech/ Notification on Notification off Sci-Tech]

Women Who Escaped Slavery Turn Anti-trafficking Crusaders In India

2021-01-01T06:53:42Z

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By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S eparated from her parents, Jayashree Ponrajan spent most of her teenage years trapped in a form of bonded labour - forced to live and work in the spinning mills of southern India. It took Ponrajan years to find a way out, but ever since then she has been denouncing the recruitment of teenagers in India's textile and garments industry and the harsh conditions they face. That made her an obvious candidate for a new initiative that will train victims of forced labour and human trafficking to be campaigners in communities at high risk from modern slavery. "I tell everyone my story - how I went to a spinning mill when I was 14, cried when I was not allowed to meet my mother, lost the nails of my right hand and learnt to continue work with my left," Ponrajan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Now 43, she has been recruited to a team of 50 female slavery survivors and hopes her voice will be heard by those who can change the way business and work is conducted in the Indian garment industry, which employs at least 12 million people. The initiative wants to "bring the lived experience of women and survivors to the anti-slavery movement", said Claire Falconer, who heads the Freedom Rising project, launched by anti-trafficking nonprofit the Freedom Fund. "The aim is to give an authenticity to the voice of the movement as their (survivors') perspective is critical to the work of changing the conditions that lead people to be exploited," she added. About 2,260 cases of human trafficking involving more than 6,000 victims were reported in India last year, with sex trafficking and forced labour the most common offences. Networks of former victims across various Indian states play a key role in helping anti-trafficking groups reach people still trapped in modern slavery - from bonded labour in brick kilns to labour abuse in garment factories. In December, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tour đi thái lan] survivors from 11 Indian states turned campaigners by roping in their communities to write more than 110,000 postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to bring in an anti-trafficking law. Several state governments are also working with survivor networks and community groups to track down and help victims. Under the new programme, being launched online on Wednesday, each cohort of 50 leaders in different states will get a minimum of 12 months of mentoring, leadership and technical training, before graduating to join the Freedom Rising alumni network. "Besides building capacity of individuals, we want to change organisations culturally. For example, many organisations working to protect the rights of female garment workers are led by men," Falconer said. Following the [http://realitysandwich.com/?s=pilot%20project pilot project] in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the Freedom Fund will roll out the programme to other parts of India, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tour thái lan giá rẻ] Nepal, Thailand [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-thai-lan-bangkok-pattaya-5-ngay.html tour thái lan giá rẻ] and Ethiopia. For Ponrajan, who eventually graduated in social work and now works as a field coordinator for nonprofit Centre for Action and Rural Education (CARE), her new role is an opportunity for personal growth as well as a chance to help others. "I want to be heard everywhere and by everyone. For that I need to learn English and also be more aware of labour laws," she said. "I'm hoping this programme will help me learn new skills (to) reach out to more people. Then, change will happen faster." (Reporting by Anuradha Nagaraj @AnuraNagaraj; Editing by Helen Popper. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit website

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