Dr. Utku Perktaş is a professor in the Biology Department at Hacettepe University.
It was December 2019. The first known coronavirus-related cases began to appear around a seafood market in Wuhan, an 11 million city in China. Four cases became dozens by the end of December. Doctors only knew that these were patients with virus-induced pneumonia who did not respond to normal treatment protocols. In fact, the real
There have been five major extinctions in the history of the Earth. The first one occurred 2.45 billion years ago: almost 70 percent of the species that existed at that time disappeared. The latest one occurred 66 million years ago; the giant dinosaurs disappeared as a result. But during these extinctions, Man was not yet
An outbreak caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19, started in China earlier this year. To date, more than 130.000 cases have been diagnosed worldwide. A total of 123 countries officially reported infections. This outbreak, which first started as an epidemic, was turned into a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. What
What happens if your fever, your body temperature, increases by 3 degrees? You have to run to the emergency room, right? But what if earth’s fever increases 3 degrees? I try to explain. Oceans become warmer as the land heats up. On the one hand, the melting of glaciers at the poles accelerates In Antarctica,
Utku Perktaş The World Health Organization (WHO) released a “Disease-X ” warning some time ago. Disease-X: The name sounds like it’s come straight out horror scenarios in sci-fi movies but it real. It’s classified within the same category as other respiratory diseases such as Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever disease, Ebola, MERS, and SARS. According to