The study, published in the journal Nature Food, showed that this is because of the global land-use changes including forest fragmentation,...

Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO's leading animal disease expert, said the team conducted scientific investigations into four main scenarios abou...

China has effectively snuffed out Covid-19, thanks to stringent border curbs, mass testing and a surveillance network that allows infected ...

According to the research, published recently in the journal PNAS, the Nipah virus (NiV) could circulate among fruit bats, not just in plac...

Researchers looked at influenza viruses found in pigs from 2011 to 2018 and found a "G4" strain of H1N1 that has "all the essential hallmar...

Analysis has revealed that Covid-19 is closely related to SARS-related coronaviruses found in horseshoe bats.

Bats are also believed to be the original source of Ebola virus outbreaks that infected people in Africa from 2014 to 2016, and in 1976. Sc...

Before the emergence late last year of the novel coronavirus, which has now killed more than 100,000 people, the 21st century's epidemics h...

The infection is capable of spreading from person to person and between cities.

Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found a SARS-like virus in Chinese horseshoe bats that may infect humans without need for ...

It turns out that when coffee plantations encroach on natural forest habitat, bats are happy to live in the coffee.

With increasing human population and rise in agricultural land use in India's Western Ghats, a number of bat species are findings it diffic...