Researchers dismissed the risk of HKU5 coronavirus spreading among human populations on a large scale, pointing out that its ...

The new virus comes from the merbecovirus subgenus, which also includes the virus that causes Middle East respiratory ...

Newly discovered bat coronavirus shares entry protein with COVID-19, but poses lower risk of human transmission, researchers ...

Experts note that HKU5-CoV-2 has a lower binding affinity to human ACE2 than SARS-CoV-2, and its ability to infect humans on ...

Researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology, led by Shi Zhengli, discovered a new coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, in bats. While it ...

Covid-19 like new bat virus HKU5-CoV hasn’t been detected in humans yet. It has only been identified in a laboratory.

A Chinese team of virologists have found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because ...

The lab finding does raise the possibility that this new bat virus could spread from animals to humans, researchers said in a ...

Chinese virologists have identified a new bat coronavirus using the same human receptor as COVID-19, potentially allowing animal-to-human transmission. The discovery led by Shi Zhengli, from the Wuhan ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, capable of infecting human cells, sparking renewed ...

The virus is able to bind to the human angiotensin converting enzyme, the same receptor used by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which ...