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.

A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil has been found to share similarities with the deadly Mers virus but its risk ...

"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," said virologist Michael Letko.

Scientists have made another worrying discovery. hey have found at least 22 bat viruses in China, out of which 20 viruses are ...

Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists ...

China’s Yunnan. Two of them are genetically similar to lethal Nipah and Hendra, raising fears of spillover via contaminated ...

In a research published in the PLOS Journal, the scientists in China have revealed about some never-before-seen viruses in the bats that live close to humans. These viruses are quite closely related ...

If we want to prevent viral infections or develop drugs that can effectively treat them, those infections have to be ...

Researchers studying 142 bats in Yunnan (2017–2021) found 22 viruses, including two new ones similar to deadly Nipah and ...

One of the viruses is the closest-known relative of Hendra and Nipah viruses, which have human mortality rates as high as 80 ...

Researchers have cautioned that urine may act as a conduit for henipaviruses, increasing the possibility that these bats ...