Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists worried about another possible pandemic. This virus originated in bats, as ...

Indian pharmaceutical industry defends Covid-19 vaccines amid concerns, emphasizing global standards, safety, and efficacy to ...

New WHO report suggests COVID-19 originated from animal-to-human transmission, though Director-General Tedros maintains all ...

"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," said virologist Michael Letko.

This bat coronavirus also hasn’t been detected in humans—lab tests just found it has the potential to infect people. That doesn’t mean that people will get HKU5-CoV-2, though.

New Bat Virus Could Spread to Humans Like COVID-19 Scientists have discovered HKU5-CoV-2, a new bat coronavirus that can infect humans, raising concerns about potential zoonotic spillover and ...

Scientists remain divided on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, with limited data and no consensus reached after years of ...

If we want to prevent viral infections or develop drugs that can effectively treat them, those infections have to be ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories about the origins of COVID-19 have been debated extensively since the ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...

All hypotheses on how the COVID-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an ...

Within just a few months, SARS-CoV-2 had traversed international borders, leading to a global crisis. Even today, COVID-19 remains a concern, though at significantly reduced levels.