Indian health officials are scrambling to contain a deadly virus after five cases of the incurable disease were detected near one of the country's biggest cities. The bat-borne Nipah virus has been ...

People are understandably a little jumpy when you bring up bats and viruses these days. And yet, some people were not jumpy enough. Researchers are now basically begging people to please stop walking ...

A newly recognised bat-borne virus in Bangladesh is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about emerging infections in South Asia. First spotted in patients who looked like classic ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New South Wales, Australia This is the first confirmed case of the virus in the ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute and King’s College London have revealed that immunity generated by SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination may offer significant protection against a range of other b ...

Scientists in China have discovered a new coronavirus in bats capable of infecting humans. It has not infected humans so far but is somewhat capable of it. This is not to be confused with the more ...

In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like. Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no illusions about people ...

Feb 21 (Reuters) - A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it ...

In the 1970s, the environmental movement sparked a string of 'nature rebels' horror films. As climate change increases deadly interaction between humans and wildlife, homicidal rats and frogs no ...