When Michelle Mone sat down for an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg last month it was against the backdrop of serious allegations that she had been facing since 2020. Mone and her husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman, are the subjects of a long-running National Crime Agency investigation into allegations of bribery … Read more
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US scientists planned to engineer viruses with the same unique features of Covid, bombshell documents have revealed. The new tranche of emails, memos and funding applications have been dubbed the “smoking gun” in the ongoing probe into the origins of Covid. 4 Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli – dubbed ‘Batwoman’ for her work on bat coronavirusesCredit: … Read more
Medical experts are busy at the World Economic Forum in Davos, planning how to tackle Disease X. Some health officials warn that this disease could cause the “next pandemic.” Disease X is a big topic at the forum in Switzerland. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that it could infect 20 times more people … Read more
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Scientists believe the coronavirus vaccine could help prevent the deadly Nipah virus. The University of Oxford experts are trying to work out if technology used for the Covid vaccine could make the first innoculation for the deadline Nipah. The Daily Star reports people have already started receiving the jab. It makes the beginning of a … Read more
A new study is now suggesting the benefits of a meat-free diet might even extend to cutting the risks of catching COVID-19. A recently-released report in BMJ Nutrition Prevention and Health showed a plant-based diet was linked to 39 percent lower odds of becoming infected with the coronavirus. Research team leader Dr Júlio César Acosta-Navarro … Read more
Analysis by Oliver Darcy | CNN Where are Bob Iger and Jimmy Pitaro? The Disney and ESPN chiefs have both been conspicuously silent as sports shock jock Pat McAfee very publicly uses their air to host a weekly conspiracy program with injured New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers — an off-the-rails affair that recently tarred and feathered Jimmy Kimmel within the Magic Kingdom’s own walls. Neither Iger … Read more
Cold weather has sparked fears a new Covid variant could result in the UK’s largest-ever wave of infections. Experts raised concerns after one in 16 people were infected in London in mid-December, which was the hardest hit area of the UK. UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data revealed that Covid rates doubled in less than … Read more
Two European hotspots and several US states have returned to making masks mandatory, in a move that will affect British holidaymakers. But one World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said the UK should adopt the same measure. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has told people to put their face masks back on to fight a … Read more
