Reportedly, this new bat virus has the same pathway as Covid-19 that is used to infect human, ie, it is capable of binding to ...

A new study led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of Réunion and Duke University reveals that the black rat is ...

Infection with Australian bat lyssavirus is serious but extraordinarily rare, and there are effective treatments. So there’s ...

“Right now, HKU5-CoV-2 is just an interesting bat virus that scientists are studying that has the ability to bind to human cells in the lab, but with no evidence that it’s infecting people or ...

The novel virus represents a distinct lineage of the HKU5 coronavirus, originally identified in the Japanese Pipistrelle bat in Hong Kong. The study, conducted at the Guangzhou Laboratory, was led by ...

The virus binds not just to human ACE2 but also to multiple mammalian species, meaning it could spread through an intermediate animal before reaching humans ...

Scientists in Brazil discovered a novel coronavirus in bats that closely resembles the MERS-CoV virus. Continuous surveillance is essential to monitor these viruses to understand their potential ...

The human protein, known as the ACE2 receptor, is the gateway for the entry of the virus. According to the study, the bat strain can infect cells by binding to proteins in humans and other mammals.

The bat virus has a risk of animal to human transmission, although no person has been reported to have become infected with it, New York Post reports. Information in scientific journal Cell ...

Insect-eating bat in which novel coronavirus was found in South America, closely related to Mers virus (Larissa Leão Ferrer de Sousa) Scientists hope to conduct further experiments in Hong Kong ...

They found hot spots of potential spillover events in southern China, parts of Myanmar, and the Indonesian island of Java—where both bat and human populations are particularly dense, reports Nature.