Chinese researchers have identified 22 new viruses in kidney tissues from 142 bats. Two of them resemble Hendra and Nipah henipaviruses, which can cause severe brain inflammation and respiratory illne ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories about the origins of COVID-19 have been debated extensively since the ...

Concerns about another pandemic and virus outbreak loom as the Chinese researchers found 20 new viruses linked to bats.

Researchers studying 142 bats in Yunnan (2017–2021) found 22 viruses, including two new ones similar to deadly Nipah and Hendra ...

Viscount Ridley, co-author of Viral: the search for the origin of Covid-19, said: “Like all other formal investigations, the ...

China’s Yunnan. Two of them are genetically similar to lethal Nipah and Hendra, raising fears of spillover via contaminated fruits or water.

"Until further requests for information are met, or more scientific data becomes available, the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how it entered the human population will remain inconclusive," SAGO chair ...

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