Researchers led by the World Health Organization would like to go back to a wholesale food market in Wuhan in China to follow up initial cases of COVID-19 which emerged in the city and investigate how ...

As global COVID-19 infections surge, China is pushing a narrative via state media that the virus existed abroad before it was discovered late last year in the central city of Wuhan, where it was ...

The next pandemic will begin with the death of a single baby in Africa – and go on to kill more than seven million Americans, ...

Creating international viral biosafety guidelines are key to clearing up confusion, regaining trust and ensuring that essential research continues.

A Chinese website that supports human rights activities says a citizen journalist who was jailed after reporting from the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan has been sentenced ...

Zhang Zhan, a 42-year-old Chinese citizen journalist, has been sentenced to four years in prison, rights groups and activists reported. Zhang, who previously served a four-year term for reporting on ...

Sometimes even bats need a sick day. Bats are renowned for the ability to be infected with viruses that can be deadly to people without showing signs of the diseases themselves. Ebola virus, Nipah ...

BEIJING: A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the Covid-19 outbreak from the pandemic's epicentre was sentenced on Friday (Sept 19) to four more years in ...

With the whole viral genome of coronavirus 2019-nCoV having recently been sequenced at the Institut Pasteur, the isolation of strains of coronavirus 2019-nCoV detected in France has now been ...

Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer has been left off the Toronto Blue Jays' roster for their AL Division Series ...