Misinformation spreads fast when people are afraid and a contagious and potentially fatal disease is frightening. This provides the ideal emotionally charged context for rumours to thrive.
Articles on Wuhan coronavirus
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The coronavirus is still spreading in China, and the doctor who warned Chinese officials early on about a possible outbreak is now dead. But in the US, some think the outbreak is exaggerated. Is it?
New Zealand has become more economically dependent on China than many nations in the past generation, with a 12-fold jump in trade in commercial services.
In the real world, new diseases emerge from complex environments. To learn more about how, scientists set up whole artificial ecosystems in the lab, instead of focusing on just one factor at a time.
Epidemiologists want to quickly identify any emerging disease’s potential to spread far and wide. Dependent on a number of factors, this R0 number helps them figure that out and plan accordingly.
The Chinese government is accused of reacting too slowly to the health crisis and silencing its critics. Now, the public is angry and wants party leaders to be held accountable.
Coronavirus can cause lung damage, pneumonia and multi-organ failure, or sepsis, among other things.
Even before people understood how germs spread disease, they tried to isolate the sick to keep them from infecting others.
Australian scientists have grown the Wuhan virus in a lab, and that will speed up the search for a vaccine. It also will help scientists understand how the virus is transmitted from person to person.
Exotic and sensational depictions of Chinese “wet markets” may prevent a proper and efficient understanding of how viral diseases emerge.
People panic-buying face masks to protect themselves from coronavirus risk running down stocks should we really need them.
The novel coronavirus spreading outward from Wuhan, China, will get an assist from a subset of infected people who transmit it to many others.
The 1918 Spanish Flu, the 1957-1958 Asian Flu and the 2001-2002 SARS pandemic give us a frame of reference.
The World Health Organization decided that the coronavirus outbreak in China is not a public health emergency of international concern. At least, not at the moment.
Wildlife trade is a threat to human health.
The coronavirus that has sickened hundreds in Wuhan, China, has worried health officials and other humans across the globe. Should people in the US worry?
Genetic analysis indicates novel coronavirus from Wuhan has a 89% similarity to the SARS virus, a relative of the SARS bat virus. However this does not mean nCoV comes from bats.
Top contributors
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Veterinarian epidemiologist, Cirad
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Directeur régional Asie du Sud-Est, vétérinaire et épidémiologiste, Cirad
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, California State University San Marcos
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Conservation biologist, Institute of Tropical Biology, Vietnamese Academy of Natural Sciences and Technology
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Visiting Fellow, Department of Political & Social Change, Centre on China in the World, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vice President for Research, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Dean Faculty of Sciences and Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Lecturer, Philosophy, Adelaide University
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Executive Director, Institute for Dark Tourism Research, University of Lancashire