On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the first in over a century. The international ...

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu travelled 6,600 kilometres over the sea to Kerguelen Island, which is just 440km from ...

Zydus Lifesciences on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) said it is introducing a vaccine for protection against new strain of influenza virus. “The company is introducing country’s first flu ...

Can the new bat virus, HKU5-CoV-2, lead to another pandemic? According to Chinese researchers, the new coronavirus potentially transmits from animals to humans, and has reignited concerns about the ...

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There is no reason to believe the virus poses a threat to public health at the moment and no infections have been detected in humans, according to the federal health agency. "CDC is aware of a ...

A Chinese team of virologists have found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19 ...

HKU5-CoV-2 is a descendant of the HKU5 virus, first discovered in the Japanese pipistrelle bat in Hong Kong. Part of the merbecovirus subgenus (which also includes the MERS virus), it shares ...

The study on the new virus was carried out by leading Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, who is also known as the "batwoman" as a result of her extensive research on bat coronaviruses, at the Guangzhou ...

A Chinese team discovered a novel bat coronavirus that employs the same human receptor as the virus that causes COVID-19, which increases the possibility of animal-to-human transmission. A Chinese ...