County public health officials on Saturday were looking for people who may have come into contact with a rabies-infected bat ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

This means that the virus traveled up to 2,700 kilometers (1,678 miles) in a pretty short time – too fast for it to be accounted for by natural dispersal via its primary hosts, horseshoe bats.

A bat with rabies was found in Mississippi, health officials confirm. Two puppies that may have been exposed to the bat are ...

A recent study from a team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic spread naturally from bats, suggesting it arrived in Wuhan ...

Anyone who had direct contact with the bat, or knows of someone who did, was urged to call County Public Health Services.

The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what happened with the SARS outbreak in 2002, according to a study by UC San Diego ...