The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course ...

After high-tech surprise attacks in Russia and Iran, Americans should start worrying about what might be afoot on their own turf.

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

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

The virus killed at least 20 million people, wiped at least $10 trillion from the global economy and upended billions of lives.

An expert group charged by the World Health Organization to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic started released its final report on Friday, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion: Scientists still ...

Deadly Brain Virus Found In China: Concerns about another pandemic and virus outbreak loom as the Chinese researchers found 20 new viruses linked to bats.

Its first known case was identified in China's Wuhan city in late 2019. The Wuhan Virus Research Centre is famous for working on the coronaviruses found in bats.

Turns out, the virus behind COVID-19 didn’t start in Wuhan—it travelled over 2,700 km from bats in western China or northern Laos, according to a new study. Experts believe it jumped to humans ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 arrived in Wuhan, China from its place of origin too quickly for its horseshoe bat hosts to have carried it there — a dispersal pattern consistent with that of ...