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

Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

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 ...

Nipah’s deadly shadow returns to Malappuram, sparking a frantic race against time to contain the virus. Abdul Latheef Naha ...

The animal was spotted on the ground Saturday at the park. The person who found the bat placed a container over it and called ...

New Delhi: Indian government scientists say they have achieved a breakthrough in attempts to develop an indigenous therapy ...

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

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 instead ...

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 ...