Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Nandkumar M. Kamat In December 2019, a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases surfaced in Wuhan, China. Within weeks, the world was watching. Within months, it was locked down. More than six years ...

The latest Nipah virus cluster in West Bengal has reignited fears of a high‑fatality outbreak with global reach, even as officials insist the risk beyond India remains low.

Nepal, March 5 -- 2003, when severe acute respiratory syndrome-1 (SARS-CoV-1) first emerged in China, it triggered a global alert, including in Nepal. I was then working as a junior medical officer, ...

Fact Check - Pandemic simulations are conducted for preparedness, not as a blueprint for engineering a new global crisis.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, that World Health Organization (WHO) officials visit in 2021 to investigate the origins of COVID-19. /AFP-Yonhap The allegation that the COVID-19 virus ...

In recent weeks, narratives claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic had been planned since 2017 have resurfaced on social media. A number of posts on Facebook and Instagram accuse Bill Gates and the late ...

A newly identified bat virus has been quietly infecting people in South Asia, slipping past doctors because it looks so much like the deadly brain‑swelling disease caused by Nipah virus. Instead of a ...