Elon Musk on Thursday responded to a social media post on X claiming that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was preparing for new experiments on a bat virus strikingly similar to Covid-19, identified as "HKU5-CoV-2.
Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19,
CoV-2, with similarities to SARS-CoV-2. Read on to know more about the virus variant, and understand what CDC has to say about the current threat.
Scientists in China have found a new coronavirus in bats that could possibly infect humans, but the risk remains low for now.
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
Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes COVID-19.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) moved Wednesday to prohibit federal grants going toward all “dangerous” gain-of-function research on viruses, according to a copy of the
HKU5-CoV-2 has sparked concerns because it can spread to humans in a similar way to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new study’s authors ...