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 ...

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

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

A recent study from a team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic spread naturally from bats, suggesting it arrived in Wuhan ...

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 ...