People are asking if the Nipah virus is real, after words spread about the zoonotic virus that has an estimated 40-70 percent ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study.

A man in his 50s from northern New South Wales has died after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus, marking the first known ...

An expert group charged by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has found no ...

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

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

Read the latest medical research on the prevention, management, and treatment of COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This section also covers earlier related diseases, including SARS.

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to ...

Trump’s new COVID-19 website features five arguments supporting the lab. Among them was the explanation that Wuhan – the Chinese city where the virus first began spreading – is home to a ...

Scientists in China have discovered a host of never-before-seen viruses in bats that live near humans. These viruses include ...