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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (9th January, 2025) The World Health Organisation ended 2024 by reminding us that it is five years since it discovered a virus was sweeping through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (11th March, 2023) The departing director of the world’s second biggest philanthropic donor and one of the most influential funders of scientific research was doing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (19th December, 2022) It is three years since a strange new disease began felling people in a city in central China, sparking the pandemic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory disease. The 41-year-old accountant was called Chen and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) China is coming under pressure to share data and open up its virus research centres in Wuhan to proper [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in a central Chinese city, some prominent figures issued [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally respected Wellcome Trust, delivered a speech offering his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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