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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

County public health officials are asking anyone who may have come into contact with a rabid bat at the Safari Park to ...