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 bats. This group also includes the viral strain responsible for the 2002 ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

Anyone who was in the Highland Lake are on Sunday or Monday who thinks they or a pet may have came in contact with the bat is asked to contact the Weld County Department of Public Health and ...

His executive order targeted the elimination of what is called gain-of-function, which studies how viruses become more ...

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

A bat in Tippah County, Mississippi, has tested positive for rabies, leading to the quarantine of two puppies potentially ...

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 ...

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 ...