Researchers behind a new study have concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was sparked by wildlife trade in China, similar to ...

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

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

The study lands at a fraught political moment. The White House recently asserted that the pandemic had been caused by an accident in a Wuhan, China, lab.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A bat in Tippah County, Mississippi, has tested positive for rabies, leading to the quarantine of two puppies potentially ...