Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

Learn how scientists identified genetic clues that distinguish natural viral spillovers from lab-handled viruses — and why ...

I'll never understand why masking isn't required - or even just strongly encouraged - in all medical facilities, or, at the very least, in hospitals. A recent study published in the peer-reviewed ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

A Saudi man infected with a new deadly virus has died, taking the global death toll from the previously unknown disease to nine, the World Health Organisation has confirmed. The 39-year-old man, who ...