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

That's not enough time for the evolving virus to have been carried there via the natural dispersal of its primary host, the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

That’s not enough time for the evolving virus to have been carried there via the natural dispersal of its primary host, the horseshoe bat. This has led the researchers to conclude that it ...