Public health leaders looked to UNC-Chapel Hill virologist Ralph Baric to end the pandemic. Their critics blamed it on him.

Fitness and discipline are cornerstones of success in any sport, especially cricket. As Yograj Singh pointed out, Yuvraj took it upon himself to manage both Abhishek's training regimen and personal ...

Five years on from the first UK lockdown, the origin of the virus is still hotly contested. Dr Alina Chan was the scientist who was labelled a conspiracist when she went against the official view it ...

Covid-19, Covid, or if you’re old-fashioned, coronavirus. Covid is an acronym for COronaVIrus Disease. The ‘19’ bit refers to ...

Patrick Vallance's appointment was politically foolish and deeply alarming given his role in a shocking conspiracy that has ...

Since it was first identified in 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) says there have been a total of 2,618 confirmed ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is essentially a scourge of the past, although it has not been defeated completely. Unfortunately, though, what is happening at this time in Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five ...

Scientists has discovered a new coronavirus in Brazilian bats, and it has shown a striking resemblance to the MERS-CoV.The ...

Steve Thomas, a lead biologist with the Cumberland Piedmont Network, photographs a colony of Rafinesque's big-eared bats inside a remote cave at Mammoth Cave National Park. While some bat species have ...

Researchers in Brazil have identified a new coronavirus in bats that shares genetic similarities with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus. However, its potential impact on humans ...

For comparison, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS‑CoV‑2, has a human case fatality rate of around 2 percent, according to a 2022 study. The great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus ...