Health authorities in a central Chinese city on Saturday reported the country's first death from a new type of coronavirus, ...

The number of cases of a new type of viral pneumonia linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44, local health ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as "Bat Woman" for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying bat-borne diseases, tracing their origins, and analyzing their potential ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been controversy surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. New research from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine ...

SINGAPORE — After this year’s outbreak of killer severe acute respiratory syndrome stopped sales teams from travelling to Asia, and hit the economy so badly that buyers bought little of anything, ...

Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the ...

American researchers believe they've pinpointed when and where Covid first emerged — and it might not have been in China. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, say they've ...

GUANGZHOU, China -- At the dim sum restaurant on the top of the swank Yi'An Shopping Center in this teeming southern Chinese city, plates of fish balls, dumplings, stir-fried marigold and abalone were ...

A landmark study shows that bat viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 emerged far from outbreak sites, pointing to the wildlife trade, not natural bat movement, as the most plausible ...

A broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine could have prevented up to 78% of COVID-19 deaths, according to new modelling, and ...