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The pandemic inspired a cartoonist to explore their Wuhanese roots and queer identity

In the funny and heartfelt coming-of-age graphic memoir 'Messy Roots,' artist Laura Gao unpacks their relationship with their Asianness, queerness and their ever-changing home city of Wuhan.

April 24, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
Security guards stand in front of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020, after the market had been closed following an outbreak of COVID-19 there. Two new studies document samples of SARS-CoV-2 from stalls where live animals were sold.

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  • Global Health

Striking new evidence points to Wuhan seafood market as the pandemic's origin point

Two studies point to a link between the animals at the seafood market and the spread of SARS-CoV-2 — foreshadowed by photos from 2014 of raccoon dogs and birds. A top virus sleuth gives the details.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Pro-democracy activists (right) hold placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan as they march to the Chinese central government's liaison office in Hong Kong in Dec. 2020.

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  • Asia

A citizen journalist who shined a light on the pandemic in Wuhan may die in prison

"If she does not make it past the coming winter, I hope the world will remember her as she once was," Zhang Zhan's brother said. She posted videos of Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic.

November 11, 2021
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By:
  • John Ruwitch and
  • Emily Feng
CIA Director William Burns says he has appointed a senior officer who led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head the investigation into ailments that have afflicted U.S. officials around the world.

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  • National Security

CIA Director Says He Is Escalating Efforts To Solve 'Havana Syndrome' Mystery

In an NPR interview, William Burns says he has appointed a senior officer who led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head the investigation into ailments that has afflicted U.S. officials worldwide.

July 23, 2021
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan,
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • and 1 more
President Biden directed the intelligence agencies to look for evidence of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (pictured). Many scientists still think its more likely the virus came form the wild.

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  • Global Health

Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature

President Biden told U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate whether the coronavirus spread after a lab leak in China. Scientists welcome the request, but many still think it came from the wild.

May 28, 2021
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
A laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province in May 2020. Focus has turned back to the facility as a possible origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Health

Why The U.S. Thinks A Lab In Wuhan Needs A Closer Look As A Possible Pandemic Source

With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it's important to find the pandemic's origins to prevent the next one.

May 28, 2021
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By:
  • Avie Schneider
Members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus leave the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, on Feb. 3.

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  • Asia

Theory That COVID Came From A Chinese Lab Takes On New Life In Wake Of WHO Report

Some scientists worry the possibility the coronavirus escaped from research facilities hasn't gotten enough scrutiny. Others say it appears far more likely to have emerged naturally.

April 01, 2021
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  • John Ruwitch
World Health Organization investigative team member Peter Daszak (shown here during a trip to China in February) tells NPR that the group's report calls for additional research on farms that breed exotic animals in southern China.

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  • Global Health

WHO Report: Wildlife Farms, Not Market, Likely Source Of Coronavirus Pandemic

NPR has obtained an early copy of the report, which states that the coronavirus most likely did not originate at the wet market in Wuhan and that a lab leak was "an extremely unlikely pathway."

March 29, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff and
  • Suzette Lohmeyer

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  • Global Health

Why Pandemics Give Birth To Hate: From Bubonic Plague To COVID-19

The Atlanta shooting has led to heated discussion about the blame — and violence — aimed at Asians during the pandemic. It's the latest example in a long history of hatred fueled by disease.

March 27, 2021
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By:
  • Joanne Lu
Bamboo rats are among the wild animals farmed for food in China and other parts of Asia. A member of the World Health Organization team investigating the coronavirus pandemic says its report will conclude that such animal farms are likely the place where the pandemic began. Above, a live rat is on sale at a food market in Myanmar.

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  • Global Health

WHO Points To Wildlife Farms In Southern China As Likely Source Of Pandemic

Peter Daszak of the investigative team sent to Wuhan says the farms were probably where the coronavirus first jumped from bats to another animal before infecting humans.

March 15, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
A health officer in a protective suit collects a sample from a package of imported frozen food for a coronavirus rapid test at a wholesale market in China.

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  • Science

Can Frozen Food Spread The Coronavirus?

At a news conference this week, the World Health Organization made a surprising statement: The coronavirus could possibly be transmitted on frozen packages of food.

February 14, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization team (right), shakes hands with Liang Wannian, his Chinese counterpart, after a news conference on Tuesday in Wuhan, China. The White House says it has "deep concerns" over how initial findings were communicated.

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  • Health

White House: China Must Release Data From The 'Earliest Days Of The Outbreak'

The White House has "deep concerns" over how initial findings on the coronavirus were communicated and demands China make data available to investigators, national security adviser Jake Sullivan says.

February 14, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Slotkin
Peter Ben Embarek speaks during a news conference to wrap up a visit by an international team of experts from the World Health Organization in the city of Wuhan, China, on Tuesday.

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  • World

WHO: 'Very Unlikely' Coronavirus Leaked From Lab, More Study Needed To Trace Source

The coronavirus is "very unlikely" to have started in a Chinese lab but its path from animals to humans needs further investigation, a World Health Organization team said after visiting Wuhan.

February 09, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
A woman walks in a park along Yangtze River in Wuhan on Jan. 19, 2021. Residents of the city of 11 million, which was the first epicenter of COVID-19, have conflicting emotions as they reckon with the aftermath of the virus and their 76-day lockdown.

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  • Asia

Wuhan's Lockdown Memories One Year Later: Pride, Anger, Deep Pain

Jan. 23 marks the one-year anniversary of the strict lockdown imposed on the first epicenter of COVID-19. Here's what residents have to say about their experience.

January 23, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
A pro-democracy activist holds placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside the Chinese central government's liaison office, in Hong Kong, Monday. Activists demand the release of Zhang, as well as the 12 Hong Kong activists detained at sea by Chinese authorities.

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  • Asia

U.S. And EU Condemn Jailing Of Lawyer Who Reported On Coronavirus In Wuhan

Zhang Zhan was detained in May after reporting on the coronavirus response in China. Now, she faces years in prison as officials try to silence reports that differ from their own.

December 29, 2020
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  • Reese Oxner
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