The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns of another pandemic. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil has been found to share similarities with the deadly Mers virus but its risk to humans remains unclear, scientists say. Researchers from São Paulo ...

"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," said virologist Michael Letko.

This bat coronavirus also hasn’t been detected in humans—lab tests just found it has the potential to infect people. That doesn’t mean that people will get HKU5-CoV-2, though.

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered. HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by ...

This bat coronavirus also hasn’t been detected in humans—lab tests just found it has the potential to infect people. That doesn’t mean that people will get HKU5-CoV-2, though.

A newly identified coronavirus in bats has the potential to spill over into humans, said researchers in China, but US experts stated there is no immediate public health risk. In a study published ...

New Delhi: A new bat coronavirus has been discovered by a team of Chinese researchers who say that it has potential for animal-to-human transmission. The virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, was found to use ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday ...

WUHAN, China — Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the ...

This bat coronavirus also hasn’t been detected in humans—lab tests just found it has the potential to infect people. That doesn’t mean that people will get HKU5-CoV-2, though.

New bat coronavirus discovered in Brazil – but risks are unclear. Researchers hope experiments planned at high-security Hong Kong labs can determine further risks from virus ...