Flying Pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) action shot of hunting animal in natural forest background. This species is know for roosting and living in urban areas in Europe and Asia. Image via ...

Winter in the South can bring about a sharp change in conditions that impact forests and their many inhabitants. However, new research from the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and ...

Wildlife research and rescue group Acres said that the bat groundings in NTU are especially concerning as they involve only the Javan pipistrelle (Pipistrellus javanicus), one of the 25 or so ...

HKU5-CoV-2 was identified in bats from the Pipistrellus family, collected from various provinces across China. Genetic analysis shows that while it belongs to the same broad family of ...

They reported recently in the journal Cell that they found the virus, called HKU5-CoV-2, in anal swab samples from a Pipistrellus bat. Like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, it uses the ...

According to the study, published last week in the journal Cell, scientists found the coronavirus in anal swab samples taken from a bat of the genus Pipistrellus. A lab experiment showed that the ...

The coronavirus HKU5-CoV was first detected in bats in 2006. It is prevalent in Japanese house bats (Pipistrellus abramus bats) in eastern and southern Asia. Researchers have now discovered a new ...

A new bat-borne coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, discovered in China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, raises concerns due to its potential to infect human cells like SARS-CoV-2. However, experts say it ...

(Rudy, 2/23) Bloomberg: What Do We Know About The Bat-Borne HKU5-CoV-2 Virus? Researchers collected the HKU5-CoV-2 strain from a small subset of hundreds of Pipistrellus bats swabbed across China’s ...

Researchers collected the HKU5-CoV-2 strain from a small subset of hundreds of Pipistrellus bats swabbed across China’s Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Guangxi provinces. Their analysis ...