Six orphaned Zimbabwean elephant calves on verge of being released into the wild
Six orphaned elephant calves moved 900 kilometres closer to freedom this week after they translocated from Harare to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, conservation non-governmental organisation, Wild is Life (WIL), has announced. Chief executive and founder of Wild is Life (WIL) Roxy Danckwerts said when he announced the imminent release of...
Last safe haven: UN workers turned Ebola response in DRC into a sex abuse epidemic
More than 20 Congolese women have accused aid workers of sexual abuse in new claims that include rape and unwanted pregnancies, with UN investigators uncovering similar allegations of workers exploiting vulnerable women. The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to 22 women in Butembo who said male aid...
AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid vaccines combination produces potent immune response
Vaccinating people with both the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines produces a potent immune response against the virus SARS-CoV-2, researchers conducting a study in Spain have found. Preliminary results from the trial of more than 600 people – announced in an online presentation on May 16 – are the first...
New pneumonia-causing coronavirus traced to dogs discovered in patients in Malaysia
In the past 20 years, new coronaviruses have emerged from animals with remarkable regularity. In 2002, SARS-CoV jumped from civets into people. Ten years later, MERS emerged from camels. Then in 2019, SARS-CoV-2 began to spread around the world. For many scientists, this pattern points to a disturbing trend: Coronavirus...