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Soumya Swaminathan | Photo Credit: File Photo The jury is still out on the origin of the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus, although several hypotheses exist, including the possibility that the virus may have jumped from a secondary animal host, former World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said here on Wednesday. “We did not receive the…
Satyakam Arya, (2nd left) Managing Director and CEO of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) presenting 31st edition of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Environmental Protection 2025 award to N. Devakumar Sahala Samrudha from Mysuru and Veerappan from Cuddalore along RTN Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson, MSSRF, C.K. Ranganathan, Founder of CavinKare group and RTN Balaji Sreenivasan, President Rotary…
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Hyderabad: Former chief scientist of the World Health Organisation, Soumya Swaminathan on Saturday said the US opting out of WHO would not be good for anyone including that country and contributions to the global health watchdog depends on the GDPs of respective countries. Hoping that the US, which has so much technical and scientific expertise,…
Soumya Swaminathan | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ Tamil Nadu could use the genomic testing laboratories set up during the COVID-19 pandemic to measure the level of antimicrobial resistance by analysing effluents from pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, said Soumya Swaminathan, chairperson of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. At the inauguration of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)…