SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

PORTAGE, Mich. — A bat found at Portage's Ramona Park has become Kalamazoo County's first rabid animal of 2025. Saturday, the ...

That's not enough time for the evolving virus to have been carried there via the natural dispersal of its primary host, the ...

While the virus has the potential to infect humans, no real-world cases have been identified, and it does not enter human ...

Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

Rabies is a virus that causes a severe brain infection in mammals and humans that is virtually 100% fatal after symptoms ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — People should avoid contact with bats after a rabid one was found at Ramona Park, the Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department announced. On Saturday, May 10, a ...

A rabid bat was found at a Portage park Saturday, prompting the Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department to ...

That's not enough time for the evolving virus to have been carried there via the natural dispersal of its primary host, the horseshoe bat. This has led the researchers to conclude that it instead ...

This means that the virus traveled up to 2,700 kilometers (1,678 miles) in a pretty short time – too fast for it to be accounted for by natural dispersal via its primary hosts, horseshoe bats.

The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may ...