The study states that the virus originated in bats from western China or northern Laos and spread extremely quickly, even ...

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

Scientists from the University of California , San Diego, claimed the virus's ancestor likely emerged five to seven years ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what ...

The COVID-19 virus traveled a similar amount of distance in about the same amount of time as the 2002 SARS virus.

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe bats. This group also includes the viral strain responsible for the 2002 ...

Turns out, the virus behind COVID-19 didn’t start in Wuhan—it travelled over 2,700 km from bats in western China or northern ...

“At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that the distance between Wuhan and the bat virus reservoir was too extreme for a zoonotic origin,” Wertheim said. “This paper ...

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