Newswise — Scientific evidence strongly supports that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease, occurred when a virus circulating in animals transferred to humans, according to a ...

Science has dealt another devastating blow to the far-right conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, was created and then leaked from a Chinese government laboratory in the ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been controversy surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. New research from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine ...

A new international study provides a shortlist of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what happened with the SARS outbreak in 2002, according to a study by UC San Diego ...

A new international collaborative study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late ...

Recently, Congress’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final report. The basic gist is about what you’d expect from a Republican-run committee, in that it trashes a lot of ...

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 ...