In a research published in the PLOS Journal, the scientists in China have revealed about some never-before-seen viruses in the bats that live close to humans. These viruses are quite closely related ...

MERS-Like Coronaviruses May Be Just “A Small Step Away” From Jumping Into Humans Just one mutation in these understudied group of bat viruses and we could be looking at COVID 2.0, experts warn.

HKU5-CoV-2 is a form of coronavirus that was just detected in bats. The recent study picked up the virus after analyzing a*** swabs taken from a certain type of bat from the genus Pipistrellus.

What is the New Coronavirus? Some scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology, China said they had discovered a new coronavirus called HKU5-Cov-2 in bats that has the potential to be transferred to ...

HKU5 merbecoviruses have been found across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. They seem to use a viral spike protein to bind to host cells, and they utilize ACE2 to infect those cells (like ...

Alarmingly, scientists have recently discovered a new coronavirus variant in China, named HKU5-CoV-2, which they say is only a small mutation away from being able to infect humans. So, Covid-19, our ...

Test positivity for common cold coronaviruses significantly declined following widespread SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 ...

Since the emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), understanding the mechanisms underlying ...

A recent study shows that previously healthy children and adolescents who recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection face an elevated risk of developing type 1 diabetes in the following 6 months.

Scientists in China's Yunnan province have discovered 20 new viruses in bats, including two closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses. Th ...

What is the virus? The pathogen in question is HKU5, which is naturally found in the Japanese house bat. HKU5 is a subgroup of the merbecovirus, which is itself a subcategory of the coronavirus ...