The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

Although definitions of gain-of-function differ, investigative reports leave no question researchers manipulated ...

"The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman ...

A team of Chinese researchers have discovered a new bat coronavirus with the potential for animal-to-human transmission. The ...

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...

A Chinese team discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of animal-to-human transmission as it uses the same human ...

The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to ...

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.

The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, ...

DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in ...

Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world.” China has denied the lab leak theory. The Post has contacted the CIA for comment.

On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...