The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, though the infection has not yet been identified in a living person, according to a study … ...

Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020 ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories about the origins of COVID-19 have been debated extensively since the ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New ...

Researchers studying 142 bats in Yunnan (2017–2021) found 22 viruses, including two new ones similar to deadly Nipah and Hendra ...

Viscount Ridley, co-author of Viral: the search for the origin of Covid-19, said: “Like all other formal investigations, the Sago committee found it could not rule out a lab leak. This is highly ...

China’s Yunnan. Two of them are genetically similar to lethal Nipah and Hendra, raising fears of spillover via contaminated fruits or water.

An NSW man has died after being bitten by a bat Health authorities have confirmed that it is a rare case of Australian bat ...

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

The virus killed at least 20 million people, wiped at least $10 trillion from the global economy and upended billions of lives.

All hypotheses on how the COVID-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an ...