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

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

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The woman was admitted to a private hospital on May 2 with symptoms of encephalitis. Her samples were dispatched to NIV-Pune, ...

“At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that the distance between Wuhan and the bat virus reservoir was too extreme for a zoonotic origin,” Wertheim said. “This paper ...