A mystery illness in Bangladesh, initially thought to be a Nipah infection outbreak, is actually due to another emerging and potentially deadly bat-borne virus, scientists warned in a new study.

A newly identified bat virus has been quietly infecting people in South Asia, slipping past doctors because it looks so much ...

Research led by the Wuhan Institute of Virology has identified a distinct bat virus lineage capable of infecting human cells ...

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, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Analysis of bat kidneys in China found 20 new viruses, including two that are similar to known fatal illnesses that can infect ...