Researchers analyzed genetic material gathered from the Chinese market where the first outbreak was detected and found that the most likely animals were racoon dogs, civet cats and bamboo rats. The ...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) stands as the fastest-spreading and most extensive global health crisis that humanity has faced in a century ...

A study published in Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by ...

A new coronavirus has been found in Brazil that shares key features with the one that sparked the Covid pandemic.

Imogen Braddick joined The Sun as a <a href=" News Reporter in 2020. Her recent exclusives include an interview with Vladimir ...

In any infectious outbreak, one of the first steps in the epidemiological response is to locate case one—the first infected patient, also known as the index case or patient zero. This is not a mere ...

In just a few years scientist Ralph Baric went from being heralded as a global leader in public-health focused coronavirus research, to a target of unproven accusations that he helped start a pandemic ...

Just released online (and to be published June 12, 2025) in the peer-reviewed journal Cell, genetic research by Jonathan Pekar of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. (and 18 other international ...

This is the second part of a three-part interview with Dr. Peter Daszak, conducted as part of the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. Part 1 can be read here and Part 3 here. Benjamin ...

In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, ...