The disease is in the same family of viruses as SARS and MERS. Chinese authorities think they've identified a new coronavirus, a member of the family of viruses that caused SARS and MERS, that could ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as "Bat Woman" for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying bat-borne diseases, tracing their origins, and analyzing their potential ...

Horseshoe bats are the primary host for the ancestor of the viruses that caused both the 2002 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study suggests that the wildlife trade transported the ...

So far, there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Dozens of people in China have been sickened with pneumonia from an unknown source, according to the World Health Organization. WHO was ...

American researchers believe they've pinpointed when and where Covid first emerged — and it might not have been in China. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, say they've ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been controversy surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. New research from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine ...

Though COVID-19 is novel in numerous ways, it may bring back memories from SARS for those living in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This may be a reason why these countries have been more prepared in dealing ...

A landmark study shows that bat viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 emerged far from outbreak sites, pointing to the wildlife trade, not natural bat movement, as the most plausible ...

The study’s authors include scientists from Colorado State University, the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories and the ...