New genetic analyses reveal that the bat virus ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in Western China or ...

In a study published this week, a team of researchers compared the evolutionary story of SARS with that of COVID-19 17 years ...

The New York Times quietly edited its early articles on the COVID-19 pandemic to scrub the phrases “China virus” and ...

Turns out, the virus behind COVID-19 didn’t start in Wuhan—it travelled over 2,700 km from bats in western China or northern ...

A new genetic study suggests Covid-19 likely originated from the wildlife trade, specifically in Wuhan's markets, rather than ...

The study states that the virus originated in bats from western China or northern Laos and spread extremely quickly, even ...

For more than four years, the world has been gripped by the question: Where did COVID-19 come from? Was it a freak accident ...

New research is rewriting the origin story of the virus that triggered the deadly COVID pandemic. Challenging the idea that ...

According to the paper, the precursor to SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats in western China or Northern Laos several years before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan.