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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

“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,” said Dr. Joel ...

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 ...