CoV-2, which can enter human cells using the same gateway as the highly contagious SAR-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. However, researchers say the newly discovered germ is much less capable of rapi

A new mystery virus that has already killed 50 people is being compared to the COVID outbreak, Knewz.com can reveal. The unknown illness, first discovered in three children who ate a bat, has spread rapidly throughout the northwest Congo.

Scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have shared warnings of a new strain of Covid found in bats which has a fatality rate of 35%, amid fears of a new pandemic

Although definitions of gain-of-function differ, investigative reports leave no question researchers manipulated coronaviruses at Wuhan lab.

Researchers in China have discovered a new coronavirus in bats that they say has the potential to spread to humans, after the world was recently hit by the COVID-19 pandemic

CoV-2, was found in horseshoe bats in China and can bind to human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19

One of Trump’s biggest complaints was that the agency was too slow to alert the world of an emerging health threat in China and to move to contain its spread. Local newspapers had been reporting that a mysterious illness was spreading around Wuhan as early as November 17, 2019, a fact backed up by genetic analysis.

An expert group led by the World Health Organization concluded in 2021 that ... from the Huanan seafood market, the day after Wuhan municipal authorities first raised the alarm about an unknown ...

The US withdrawal will not officially happen until January 2026, so there will be months of uncertainty over budgets and strategic direction at the near-80-year-old agency. Set up by the United Nations, the organization’s goals include expanding universal health coverage and coordinating the world’s response to health emergencies.