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

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

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 ...

County public health officials are looking for people who may have come in contact with a bat found at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park ...