A vaccine in development may slow the spread of Nipah virus, which kills up to 75 percent of the people it sickens, but ...

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

Daszak is a virus hunter. Over the past 10 years, he has visited over 20 countries trying to prevent the next big pandemic by searching bat caves for new pathogens. Credit: Smithsonian institute ...

The staff of a hotel in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park detected colonies of bats in the attics of the rooms where guests ...

"Out of an abundance of caution," health officials are recommending all children at a Brantford, Ont., daycare get treated ...

In contacting the hotel guests, officials will determine if someone is at risk based on physical contact with the bats or if ...

OUTAGAMIE COUNTY, Wis. (WFRV) – Health officials in Outagamie County are urging residents to take precautions after a bat in the county recently tested positive for rabies. In a release sent out on ...

Nipah virus (NiV), an RNA virus, and Nipah virus infection (NiVI) are relatively recently discovered entities. NiVI is a particularly lethal infection, with a mortality rate usually higher than 50 ...

Most of the tested merbecoviruses could not effectively bind to human receptors. However, HKU5 variants used the ACE2 receptor—the same one used by SARS-CoV-2—to bind cells, though they currently do ...

Apparently, this virus is “the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 reported to date.” RmYN02 was found in samples from 227 bats collected from the Yunnan Province in China between May and October 2019.

In a lab study, the new coronavirus was found to have the potential to enter cells through the ACE2 receptor, a protein found on the cells' surface. This is the same way the virus that causes ...

However, HKU5 variants used the ACE2 receptor—the same one used by SARS-CoV-2—to bind cells, though they currently do so only in bats. The researchers found that these viruses bind efficiently to the ...