Researchers behind a new study have concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was sparked by wildlife trade in China, similar to ...

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

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

The study lands at a fraught political moment. The White House recently asserted that the pandemic had been caused by an accident in a Wuhan, China, lab.

Weld County authorities have confirmed that an unusual-acting bat has tested positive for rabies, marking the first confirmed ...

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

A common type of bat found in the Del Rey Oaks area has tested positive for the rabies virus, the Monterey County Public ...

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

The New York Times quietly edited its early articles on the COVID-19 pandemic to scrub the phrases “China virus” and ...

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 ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what happened with the SARS outbreak in 2002, according to a study by UC San Diego ...

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 ...