In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on the flying mammal's immune system?

I am standing in front of a famous seafood market, known all around the world for the notable produce you can – or could – buy here. Sadly, the market seems to be closed for business, permanently. It ...

In a new study, researchers across three US states analyzed seven viral outbreaks in recent decades, including Covid, Ebola and influenza, to determine how they emerged and mutated.

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, that World Health Organization (WHO) officials visit in 2021 to investigate the origins of COVID-19. /AFP-Yonhap The allegation that the COVID-19 virus ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

This concern is particularly more relevant in South Asia, where recent increases in Nipah virus cases reported in India and Bangladesh suggest more frequent human-bat interactions in the region. Covid ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat In December 2019, a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases surfaced in Wuhan, China. Within weeks, the world was watching. Within months, it was locked down. More than six years ...

Fact Check - Pandemic simulations are conducted for preparedness, not as a blueprint for engineering a new global crisis.

WASHINGTON — Two Republican lawmakers demanded Monday that the National Institutes of Health halt more than $3 million in taxpayer funding for “sketchy” research on live bats involving “experimental ...

In the debate over gain-of-function (GoF) research, few entities draw as much scrutiny as EcoHealth Alliance. Now, as federal investigations intensify and pandemic-era research funding comes under the ...

An infectious disease researcher at UNC who’s attracted national attention is now being investigated by Republican state lawmakers. Dr. Ralph Baric is a coronavirus expert who collaborated with the ...