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Scientists Question Validity of Major Hydroxychloroquine Study https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/health/coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=409512581&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine has shown mixed results against the coronavirus in early studies, but a new paper out of New York suggests combining it with the dietary supplement zinc sulfate could create a more effective treatment.  https://news.yahoo.com/zinc-hydroxychloroquine-found-effective-covid-19-patients-study-075932458.

While there exists a possibility that household pets can become infected with coronavirus (albeit a low one), to what extent can pet fur or skin be a transmission route for viral infection to a human? http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/can-the-novel-coronavirus-be-transmitted-on-animal-fur/article/572490

The SA govt now suggests social distancing for pigs, as African swine fever spreads The agriculture department is recommending a form of social distancing for South Africa's pigs. African swine fever has now also been detected in the Free State, and may be spreading fast in the Eastern Cape. https://www.businessinsider.co.za/african-swine-fever-requires-social-distancing-for-pigs-2020-5

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Analysis of COVID-19 autopsies reveals many new details about this disease https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-analysis-covid-autopsies-reveals-disease.html Pork, Pigs, and the Wuhan C... by rubiconmedia on Scribd COVID-19 and African Swine ... by rubiconmedia on Scribd

Tyson shutters US pork plant as more workers contract COVID-19 Tyson Foods Inc announced on 28 May that it will temporarily close a pork plant in Iowa as more workers catch COVID-19. https://thepigsite.com/news/2020/05/tyson-shutters-us-pork-plant-as-more-workers-contract-covid-19 Pork, Pigs, and the Wuhan C... by rubiconmedia on Scribd COVID-19 and African Swine ... by rubiconmedia on Scribd

Co-infections among patients with COVID-19: The need for combination therapy with non-anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1684118220301274?via%3Dihub COVID-19 and African Swine ... by rubiconmedia on Scribd

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/nih-director-wuhan-coronavirus-collins-285681   Report says cellphone data suggests October shutdown at Wuhan lab, but experts are skeptical A private analysis of cellphone location data purports to show that a high-security Wuhan laboratory studying coronaviruses shut down in October, three sources briefed on the matter told NBC News. U.S. spy agencies are reviewing the document, but intelligence analysts examined and couldn't confirm a similar theory previously, two senior officials say. The report — obtained by the London-based NBC News Verification Unit — says there was no cellphone activity in a high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a "hazardous event" sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11. Source: https://news.yahoo.com/report-says-cellphone-data-suggests-001233644.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_15 Re: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AC...

Meat industry is trying to get back to normal, but workers are still getting sick https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Big-meat-processors-saw-plants-become-covid-19-15293690.php

EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus that has become a world-wide pandemic may have been created in a “cell-culture experiment” in a laboratory, according to prominent scientists who have conducted ground-breaking research into the origins of the virus. https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6158843835001

Abstract: Background: COVID-19 has rapidly emerged as a pandemic infection that has caused significant mortality and economic losses. Potential therapies and means of prophylaxis against COVID-19 are urgently needed to combat this novel infection. As a result of in vitro evidence suggesting zinc sulfate may be efficacious against COVID-19, our hospitals began using zinc sulfate as add-on therapy to hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. We performed a retrospective observational study to compare hospital outcomes among patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc versus hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone. Methods: Data was collected from electronic medical records for all patients being treated with admission dates ranging from March 2, 2020 through April 5, 2020. Initial clinical characteristics on presentation, medications given during the hospitalization, and hospital outcomes were recorded. Patients in the study were excluded if they were treated wit...

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Study shows cats can harbor SARS-CoV-2 without any symptoms https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200524/Study-shows-cats-can-harbor-SARS-CoV-2-without-any-symptoms.aspx "Growing the virus in animal cells is one way to test whether the pathogen has adapted to a new host. Shi Yi, a microbiologist at the CAS Institute of Microbiology in Beijing, plans to introduce an inactivated version of RATG13, in various animals, such as bats, cats monkeys and pigs , and see whether the virus develops a similar pattern of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 over time. If similarities emerge, that could reveal which animals the virus adapted to before it jumped to people. " https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01449-8

"Growing the virus in animal cells is one way to test whether the pathogen has adapted to a new host. Shi Yi, a microbiologist at the CAS Institute of Microbiology in Beijing, plans to introduce an inactivated version of RATG13, in various animals, such as bats, cats monkeys and pigs , and see whether the virus develops a similar pattern of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 over time. If similarities emerge, that could reveal which animals the virus adapted to before it jumped to people. " https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01449-8

"Growing the virus in animal cells is one way to test whether the pathogen has adapted to a new host. Shi Yi, a microbiologist at the CAS Institute of Microbiology in Beijing, plans to introduce an inactivated version of RATG13, in various animals, such as bats, cats monkeys and pigs , and see whether the virus develops a similar pattern of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 over time. If similarities emerge, that could reveal which animals the virus adapted to before it jumped to people. " https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01449-8

Mink in Netherlands are infected with the COVID-19 virus. Are they also infected with African Swine Fever Virus, which can infect mink? Is a novel strain of African Swine Fever now circulating in the Netherlands? Are pigs in the Netherlands infected with SARS-CoV-2? Mink May Have  Infected a Human with Covid-19, Dutch Authorities Believe https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/minks-may-have-infected-a-human-with-covid-19-dutch-authorities-believe/ar-BB14mQeR Susceptibility of Mink to Certain Viral Animal Diseases Foreign to the United States S P Sahu ,  A H Dardiri PMID: 228092 DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-15.3.489 Abstract Mink (Mustela vison) were inoculated with viruses: African horse sickness (AHS), African swine fever (ASF), bovine herpes vir...