The World Health Organization is monitoring a new mutation of the virus that’s already caused a surge in Asia.

Just one mutation in these understudied group of bat viruses and we could be looking at COVID 2.0, experts warn.

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

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

A dangerous new coronavirus discovered in China could spark the next pandemic, American scientists have warned. According to researchers from Washington State University, the new HKU5-CoV-2 virus is ...

BIRD flu has been detected in an English farm, it’s been announced. A case of the H5N1 bird flu was found in poultry in West ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced this week that NB.1.8.1 has so far only been detected in small numbers within ...

The study also found that spike protein mutations could enable HKU5 virus to cross the species barrier. One HKU5 virus has ...

A new Covid variant has spread to the U.S., including in New York state.

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...

For now, NB.1.8.1 accounts for fewer than 20 reported cases nationwide, USA Today reported – but the transmissibility of the ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has uncovered significant genetic and antigenic diversity among H9N2 avian ...