An injured bat that was rescued from a back garden tested positive for an extremely rare rabies-like virus. Using gloves, the resident of the house in Shorwell, on the Isle of Wight, picked up the bat ...

Australia has recorded its fourth death of the bat lyssavirus — a very rare and fatal virus that can lay dormant for years. Health authorities yesterday confirmed a man, aged in his 50s, from ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New South Wales, Australia This is the first confirmed case of the virus in the ...

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 spread ...

HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging comes from the merbecovirus subgenus A new bat coronavirus, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered in China. A Chinese team of ...

The Covid-19 pandemic had brought the world to a stand still. The SARS-CoV-2 spread like wildfire in 2019 claiming millions of lives and creating a dreadful atmosphere. As the world still reels from ...

A New South Wales (NSW) man in his 50s has died after being infected with what the authorities have confirmed as the state’s first case of Australian bat lyssavirus, a rare disease closely related to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It just takes one, and so far that’s what scientists investigating the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak have found — a bat infected with the identical virus that was isolated from human ...