Category: deadly pathogens

Rise in Tick-Borne Disease That Kills Up to 1 in 5 Vulnerable People

There has been a considerable increase in the potentially deadly tick-borne disease babesiosis in the United States, according to new research. Incidences of babesiosis “significantly increased” in the northeastern United States between 2011 and 2019, according to a March 17 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among tick-borne pathogens, babesia…


Winnipeg to Wuhan Mystery Deepens

Commentary Xiangguo Qiu, the former program director at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) who transferred deadly pathogens to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and her husband Keding Cheng, are missing from Winnipeg and may no longer even be in Canada, according to John Woods of the Canadian Press. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)…