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“Falls to” by Li Wei

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“Falls to” by Li Wei

While animal origin of Covid-19 remains a mystery, will revised law in China help prevent more diseases jumping from wildlife to people? | South China Morning Post

The revised Wildlife Protection Law will prohibit the consumption, hunting, transport and sale of wild animals. However, environmentalists say it is riddled with loopholes and will encourage the commercial breeding and use of wildlife.

“It’s a big step forward in terms of captive breeding and the commercial use of wild animals,” Tian said. “It actually looks more like a wildlife utilisation law to me.”

Avinash Basker, a senior campaigner with the Environmental Investigation Agency, an international NGO, said that while there were a few positive changes in the revised law, such as strengthening of the prohibition on the consumption of wild animals as food, “the major problem with the law – that it legitimised the breeding and commercial use of even the highest level of protected species in China” remained unchanged.

Source: While animal origin of Covid-19 remains a mystery, will revised law in China help prevent more diseases jumping from wildlife to people? | South China Morning Post

Even bivalent updated COVID-19 boosters struggle to prevent omicron subvariant transmission – an immunologist discusses why new approaches are necessary

The new bivalent boosters against COVID-19 have failed to halt omicron infections. However, new technologies are being developed that pave a way forward.

Source: Even bivalent updated COVID-19 boosters struggle to prevent omicron subvariant transmission – an immunologist discusses why new approaches are necessary