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

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

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 ...

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

Prophylactic treatments are preventive measures taken to lower the risk of developing a disease or worsening an existing ...

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported that a mosquito in Illinois tested positive for West Nile virus. Find out ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what ...