The death rate for Nipah virus is up to 75% and it has no vaccine. While the world focuses on Covid-19, scientists are working hard to ensure it doesn’’t cause the next pandemic.
Southeast Asia is the source of 95 percent of global cassava exports, and the detection in 2015 in Cambodia of the potentially harvest-devastating Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus (SLCMV) raised alarm. By 2016, the disease, which cannot always be detected visually, had spread, showing its potential to become a major threat to the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farming families.
JAKARTA - Indonesia will soon introduce a new rapid test which can analyse breath samples and detect Covid-19 infection within a few minutes. The test is set to use breathalysers GeNose C19, developed by researchers at Yogyakarta-based Gadjah Mada University.
