https://www.rt.com/news/529488-chinese-man-monkey-b-virus/

It has been revealed that China’s first recorded case of a human becoming infected by the deadly monkey B virus died in May, sparking concern.

The unnamed 53-year-old veterinarian from Beijing died on May 27, just a few months after he dissected two dead monkeys as part of his experimental primate research job in March. After dissecting the monkeys, the man reportedly experienced symptoms of the monkey B virus, including vomiting and fever, and eventually died in hospital.

The man is the first recorded case of a human becoming infected by the virus and has sparked concern, with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) warning that the monkey B virus could potentially harm others who work with primates.

“Zoonotic BV infections have mainly involved primate veterinarians, animal care personnel, or laboratory researchers in North America. However, there were no fatal or even clinically evident BV infections in China before 2021,” the CCDC Weekly journal declared earlier this month.

https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/us-scientists-call-for-closer-research-ties-with-china/

American professors are pushing for greater collaboration with Chinese Communist Party scientists even as experts explore the possibility that the deadly coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan virology lab.

Twenty-one American and 19 Chinese professors signed on to an article for the Environmental Science and Technology journal advocating for increased collaboration between American and Chinese scientists. The journal is a publication of the American Chemical Society, one of the largest scientific societies in the world. Primarily authored by Glen Daigger of the University of Michigan and Jiuhui Qu of Tsinghua University in Beijing, the article downplays concerns about cooperation between the United States and China while pushing for tighter scientific research sharing and development. Nine of the American co-writers were educated at Chinese universities, and 18 of the journal's editors work for Beijing-backed institutions.

"This particular initiative seems to serve the objective of trying to deflect or blunt the rising suspicions about the direct political use of science by the Chinese regime, and the increasing awareness abroad that PRC scientists simply are not independent to speak their own mind, but can only speak as representatives of the CCP regime, on pain of damaging their careers, or worse," Fiskesjö said.

Daigger, one of the lead writers of the article, is an engineering professor at Michigan. When asked about problems posed by joint ventures with China, he criticized America's "racism" and "climate change denial." He argued that international collaboration helps the United States.

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Even though you can see it from Orbit, China says fake

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/16/21/china-downplays-satellite-analysis-dumping-wastes-west-philippine-sea

MANILA - The Chinese embassy in Manila has downplayed a satellite analysis showing Chinese ships allegedly dumping untreated wastes in the South China Sea.

In a statement, the embassy's spokesperson claimed the report by US-based satellite image analysis firm Simularity was "fabricated" and driven by "anti-Chinese forces."

Simularity's CEO Liz Derr earlier said that based on their calculations, 2,596 pounds or over a ton of human wastes are being dumped around the Spratly and Paracel Islands every day.

Philippine officials said they would investigate the incident.

"The Chinese embassy strongly condemns the said company’s act of fabricating facts, violating professional ethics, and maliciously spreading fake news against China," the embassy.

"For a long time, anti-China forces like this company have spared no efforts to produce lies and hype up the South China Sea issue to discredit and demonize China, create hatred and anti-China sentiments in the Philippines."

The Chinese embassy also described the report as a "lie".

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Dem's propose new gender pronoun

DNC's push for simian rights expoldes on the scene

China has have funded enviromentalists for years to slow our economy, now they get bent over

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/chinas-mmg-stops-land-clearing-australian-project-after-protests-2021-07-15/?

MELBOURNE, July 15 (Reuters) - China's MMG Ltd (1208.HK) has halted land clearing measures in a wilderness area on Australia's southern island Tasmania after legal action by protesters concerned about the environment, both sides said on Thursday.

MMG has been clearing land for a road in a wilderness area of the state as it investigates waste storage options for its Rosebery zinc, copper and lead mine, 200 km (124 miles) northwest of Hobart, the state capital, which has been operating for 85 years.

It is running out of storage capacity for the waste, known as tailings, which imperils the life of the mine which is a major employer in the remote area.

The plans have stirred up environmental activists, led by the Bob Brown Foundation, concerned that old-growth forest in the area could be damaged. The foundation sent a legal letter to the company saying that MMG appeared to have undertaken the roadworks without a proper permit.

"After eight weeks of daily protests, more than 400 participants and 71 arrests, yesterday a temporary reprieve was given to the takayna/Tarkine rainforests after the Chinese state-owned miner announced late in the day they would halt their controversial road-building for a heavy metals tailings dump," the group said in a statement.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/epa-requests-doj-investigate-foreign-funding-of-environmental-groups/

The Environmental Protection Agency has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that U.S. environmental groups have received covert funding from China and Russia.

EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler made the request after Rep. Lance Gooden (R., Texas) alleged that left-wing environmental groups—including the Sea Change Foundation, Sunrise Movement, and Sierra Club—have functioned as conduits for "foreign influence, financial involvement, and election interference." Wheeler noted that it is not against the law for a nonprofit to take contributions from foreign entities but nonetheless asked the DOJ to look into whether the groups should register as foreign agents.

Inflation is hitting everything

https://lana-news.ly/art.php?id=207724&lang=en&p=1

Libyan News Agency: High Prices Of Sacrificial Sheep Among Citizens' Dissatisfaction In Light Of Low Salaries And Traders' Complaints About The Lack Of Fodder.

Representatives of the Libyan News Agency, in tours they made to a number of markets, monitored the citizen’s complaints about the high cost of sacrificial sheep, as well as the merchants about the lack of fodder throughout the year and the monopoly of some private sector companies on prices in the absence of control over these companies.

The authors of the report noted a clear reluctance of citizens to buy sacrificial animals, noting that the prices ranged between 900 dinars and 2800 dinars, a figure that the one who receives a salary from the state cannot secure in light of his needs and his family to provide for other things.

https://guardian.ng/news/monkeypox-alert-highlights-need-for-increased-disease-surveillance-other-than-covid-19-tomori/

A Professor of Virology, Oyewale Tomori, says COVID-19 is diverting the country’s need to increase surveillance on other diseases of public health concerns.

According to him, increased disease surveillance across board has become urgently necessary as the Texas U.S. health authorities detect a monkeypox case traceable to Nigeria.

NAN reports that U.S. health authorities recently diagnosed a resident who had spent some time in Nigeria of monkeypox, stating that it is the first reported case of monkey pox in the U.S.

The U.S. Centre for Disease and Control (CDC) said the traveller left Lagos, Nigeria on July 8, 2021 and arrived Atlanta, U.S. on July 9.

After a stopover at the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, the traveller continued to Dallas, and is currently in a Dallas hospital.

It assured that the risk that the virus would spread to others was believed to be low.

The CDC investigators released a description of the traveller and are working with airline, state and local health officials to contact passengers and other individuals who might have come in contact with the patient during the trip.

The investigators said that mask policies which were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic likely limited other travellers’ exposure to the virus, which is also a respiratory virus.