SARS is characterized by severe, pneumonia-like symptoms which can be fatal. SARS-CoV was transmitted from person to person mainly through respiratory droplets produced when a person sneezes or coughs ...

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across ...

The virus last week confirmed as causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is transmitted almost entirely by large droplets reaching the mucous membranes of nose and lungs and not by feces or ...

Researchers have discovered a virus that could enter human cells in a similar way to COVID-19. But they caution it's much ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

Tuesday marked five years since the World Health Organization declared a world pandemic as the SARS-CoV-2 transmission ...

More information: Brian Lee et al, Inferring effects of mutations on SARS-CoV-2 transmission from genomic surveillance data, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55593-0 ...

The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns of another pandemic. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

A team of Chinese researchers have discovered a new bat coronavirus with the potential for animal-to-human transmission. The virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, was found to use the same human receptor as ...