While the virus has the potential to infect humans, no real-world cases have been identified, and it does not enter human ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

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.

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Health (IDPH) reported its first mosquito pool in the state, testing positive ...

A bat with rabies was found in Mississippi, health officials confirm. Two puppies that may have been exposed to the bat are ...

Anyone who had direct contact with the bat, or knows of someone who did, was urged to call County Public Health Services.

The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may ...

County public health officials are asking anyone who may have come into contact with a rabid bat at the Safari Park to ...