Being responsible and sheltering at home is one way to limit the spread of COVID-19. Changing our relationship with wildlife and farm animals, however, would help keep deadly zoonotic diseases out of ...

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been proven effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19, but their broader impact on gastrointestinal disorders remains poorly studied. Non-typhoidal ...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., faced off with leading COVID-era infectious diseases specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate hearing today, bringing renewed attention to ongoing debates about the origins ...

A new international collaborative study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late ...

In a new study published in Cell titled, “Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics,” researchers from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) report that most ...

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The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

Photo by D. Calma for IAEA. The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, launched an initiative on June 15 to strengthen global preparedness for future ...

The cycle of recriminations and scapegoating undermines everyone's common goal of preventing future waves of mass death, lockdowns and school closures.