A man is in critical condition after contracting a rare bat virus in Australia. The first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) has been reported in the state of New South Wales, ...

Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020, ...

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

Amid the ongoing global concern over Nipah, virologists issued a striking warning on Tuesday - While the whole world is concerned about the deadly Nipah virus, another, equally lethal virus is ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

Bats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry. This remarkable resilience stems from their ability to suppress excessive ...

The newly discovered BRZ batCoV shares a key feature of SARS-CoV-2, one that could allow it or similar viruses to infect human cells. Reading time 3 minutes SARS-CoV-2, the cause of covid-19, isn’t ...

Research led by the Wuhan Institute of Virology has identified a distinct bat virus lineage capable of infecting human cells using the ACE2 receptor. The newly discovered merbecovirus, designated HKU5 ...