Scientists in Bangladesh discovered a new bat-borne virus called PRV in five patients who initially appeared to have Nipah virus.

Airport thermometers, health questionnaires and masked officials are back in parts of Asia as a deadly bat-borne virus revives memories of the early COVID-19 years. Governments are scrambling to ...

A newly recognised bat-borne virus in Bangladesh is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about emerging ...

Between late 2022 and early 2023, five patients arrived at hospitals in Bangladesh with symptoms that screamed “Nipah virus.” They were feverish, struggling to breathe, and slipping into dangerous ...

Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020, ...

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New Nipah-like bat virus in Bangladesh is becoming more deadly, scientists warn - PRV infections are typically mild, but that has not been the case in these newly documented cases ...

The newly discovered BRZ batCoV shares a key feature of SARS-CoV-2, one that could allow it or similar viruses to infect human cells. Reading time 3 minutes SARS-CoV-2, the cause of covid-19, isn’t ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...