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

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In this week's edition, columnist Sarah Pabin examines the little brown bat. Contrary to common belief and knowledge of bats, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This concern is particularly more relevant in South Asia, where recent increases in Nipah virus cases reported in India and Bangladesh suggest more frequent human-bat interactions in the region. Covid ...

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 ...

Members of the first term of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) have stated that the animal transmission hypothesis is the most ...

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

Bangladeshi researchers are uncovering a worrying co-circulation of the dangerous bat-borne virus Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV) and NiV, which has led to the recommendation that patients with NiV-like ...

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.