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New HKU5 coronavirus strain has not infected humans yet

February 22, 2025

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health, clarified on Saturday (February 22, 2025) regarding reports of a new coronavirus strain found in bats by a Chinese research team. The virus was said to have the potential to transmit to humans, similar to Covid-19.

Thai woman condemned for eating bats on show

November 09, 2022

Thai social networks and medical personnel cried foul over a video clip of a female reviewer of exotic dishes eating bats for her Facebook page and TikTok channel.

Newly discovered virus could be ‘3 times more deadly’ than Covid

MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2022

Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of coronavirus in bats that could be three times more deadly than Covid-19, Public Health Commission vice chairman Chalermchai Boonyaleephan said on Monday.

Research finds closest relatives of COVID-19 virus among bats in Laos

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2021

The team of researchers led by Marc Eloit, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, studied saliva, faeces and urine samples collected from 645 bats in caves in northern Laos and found three viruses that are close relatives of COVID-19.

No evidence that deadly bat virus escaped Wuhan lab

FRIDAY, MAY 01, 2020

For nearly a decade, a team of scientists from Wuhan, China, crisscrossed southern Asia in a high-stakes search for bats and the strange diseases they harbor.

Bats likely origin of new coronavirus, says study

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020

The new coronavirus in the ongoing outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province, is likely to have originated from bats, and is genetically more identical to severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, than the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, according to a study published online on Tuesday.

Bats possibly used in Nakhon Sawan child murder found

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2019

Four aluminium baseball bats that had allegedly been used in a fatal assault on a 15-year-old boy at a boarding school in Nakhon Sawan’s Muang district earlier this month had been sent to the Muang Nakhon Sawan police, a source said.

Concern raised over health of youths due to harmful bacteria from cave bats

MONDAY, JULY 02, 2018

THOROUGH medical check-ups await the 12 young footballers and their coach as soon as they are rescued from the Chiang Rai cave after health experts expressed concern about the possible risk of contracting a virus from bats.

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