Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

While the virus has the potential to infect humans, no real-world cases have been identified, and it does not enter human ...

Researchers behind a new study have concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was sparked by wildlife trade in China, similar to the circumstances that led to the SARS outbreak in 2002. The results ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may ...

Anyone who had direct contact with the bat, or knows of someone who did, was urged to call County Public Health Services.

A recent study from a team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic spread naturally from bats, suggesting it arrived in Wuhan ...

A bat with rabies was found in Mississippi, health officials confirm. Two puppies that may have been exposed to the bat are ...

A bat in Tippah County, Mississippi, has tested positive for rabies, leading to the quarantine of two puppies potentially ...

That’s not enough time for the evolving virus to have been carried there via the natural dispersal of its primary host, the horseshoe bat. This has led the researchers to conclude that it ...