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

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

Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

Researchers were able to test how viruses replicate differently across various bat species and organs using the new organoid ...

More than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals. Bats, in particular, are natural ...

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

Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

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

This means that the virus traveled up to 2,700 kilometers (1,678 miles) in a pretty short time – too fast for it to be accounted for by natural dispersal via its primary hosts, horseshoe bats.

Mookie Betts missed the Los Angeles Dodgers’ season opener in Tokyo as he dealt with a stomach virus that prevented him from ...

They found that each virus behaves uniquely, sometimes infecting only certain organs or bat species. For example, a virus that grew easily in one bat's lung might fail to grow in another's kidney.