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 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 ...

Weld County authorities have confirmed that an unusual-acting bat has tested positive for rabies, marking the first confirmed ...

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

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 ...

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 ...