The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course ...

After high-tech surprise attacks in Russia and Iran, Americans should start worrying about what might be afoot on their own ...

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

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

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said ...

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 ...

The origins of SARS-CoV-2 remain unsolved, concludes the full report from the World Health Organization’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO).1 Despite more than three ...

In its report, SAGO concluded that “the weight of available evidence…suggests zoonotic spillover…either directly from bats or through an intermediate host.” ...

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

The World Health Organization’s expert group says the origin of COVID-19 remains inconclusive, though most evidence still points to animal-to-human transmission.