The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns of another pandemic. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

CLASSIFIED intelligence on the outbreak of Covid immediately “set off alarm bells”, a former US State Department investigator ...

A team of Chinese researchers has discovered a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which has the potential to infect human cells. The virus, linked to the same family as MERS, was found to bind to human ...

The bat virus, referred to as HKU5-CoV-2 ... leak theories surrounding the worldwide pandemic — a presumption that China has denied.

In a study published in the journal, Cell, Jing Chen, PhD, and colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China, ...

After a few dogged journalists, a small nonprofit pursuing Freedom of Information requests and an independent group of ...

Researchers have discovered a virus that could enter human cells in a similar way to COVID-19. But they caution it's much ...

The virus is now being transported to China, along with six other viruses ... scientists took 423 oral and rectal swabs from 15 species of bats. Lab analyses revealed the seven coronavirus strains ...

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