Two of the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2 — a pair of bat coronaviruses discovered by researchers in Laos — may transmit poorly in people despite being genetically similar to the ...

World Health Organization officials first learned about a cluster of cases of pneumonia in the Hubei Province of China on Dec. 31, 2019. This represented the initial report of what soon became known ...

The SARS-like virus has killed two more people, bringing the death toll to 11. March 27, 2013— -- The mysterious SARS-like virus that appears to be originating in the Middle East has claimed two ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

Science has dealt another devastating blow to the far-right conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, was created and then leaked from a Chinese government laboratory in the ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A recent study from an international team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic ...

In a new study, researchers at Yale University performed surveillance to understand the current coronaviral landscape of wild and domestic animals in the northeastern United States. They found that ...

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The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...