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 ...

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 ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Nepal, March 5 -- 2003, when severe acute respiratory syndrome-1 (SARS-CoV-1) first emerged in China, it triggered a global alert, including in Nepal. I was then working as a junior medical officer, ...

The latest Nipah virus cluster in West Bengal has reignited fears of a high‑fatality outbreak with global reach, even as officials insist the risk beyond India remains low.

China's Wuhan Institute of Virology — the laboratory that has faced intense scrutiny over the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic — is offering to help India respond to a Nipah virus outbreak that ...

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 ...

In recent weeks, narratives claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic had been planned since 2017 have resurfaced on social media. A number of posts on Facebook and Instagram accuse Bill Gates and the late ...

Researchers in Uganda have discovered a complex network of animals feeding on bats infected with Marburg virus, capturing startling footage of potential spillover risks for the first time.

In this week's edition, columnist Sarah Pabin examines the little brown bat. Contrary to common belief and knowledge of bats, ...