New Delhi: An Australian man in his 50s has died after being bitten by an “extremely rare” bat virus that caused rabies-like ...

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

These statistics highlight a serious public health concern related to Covid-19, not only for Bangladesh but also globally. The virus, found in bats, belongs to the Merbecovirus group, which also ...

Scientists in China have discovered a host of never-before-seen viruses in bats that live near humans. These viruses include ...

Most scientific data supports the hypothesis that the new coronavirus jumped to humans from animals, according to the final ...

A new COVID variant called "Nimbus" is spreading. Here's what you need to know about the incubation period, symptoms ...

I ntrepid microbe hunters have discovered 20 new viruses lurking in the bat populations of the orchards of southwestern China ...

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

This means that the virus traveled up to 2,700 kilometers (1,678 miles) in a pretty short time – too fast for it to be accounted for by natural dispersal via its primary hosts, horseshoe bats.

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 ...

A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil has been found to share similarities with the deadly Mers virus but its risk to humans remains unclear, scientists say. Researchers from São Paulo ...