A new Covid-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or Nimbus, represents about a third of new US Covid-19 cases. Dr. Leana Wen answers ...

American scientists warn that a new coronavirus found in China poses a pandemic threat. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is related to MERS. Slight mutations could allow it to infect human cells via ACE2 ...

The World Health Organization states that around 35% of those infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) succumb ...

They gave the world a virus. Now they're playing with fungus. They hacked your phone. They might already own your network.

When a nation bears the blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what is Washington going to do? More than 1.2 million Americans died as a result of a plague that began in China.

A group of little-known bat viruses may be dangerously close to acquiring the ability to infect humans, raising alarms among ...

Preliminary data from researchers in China suggest the NB.1.8.1 variant is not better at evading the immune system compared ...

The discovery of HKU5-CoV-2 comes amid heightened global vigilance over emerging infectious diseases, a caution rooted in the ...

Dr. Fiona Havers, who studied medicine at the University of Washington, says the wholesale dismissal of the CDC's scientific ...

The pathogen detected in the virus is closely linked to MERS, an extremely lethal virus that can kill upto a third of its affected.

which is being linked to a major outbreak of the virus in China. Cases related to the NB.1.8.1 variant have been found among international travelers arriving at airports in California, Washington ...

A new coronavirus discovered in China is only a small step from mutating and causing another global pandemic, experts have ...