A virus found in Chinese horseshoe bats has the potential to jump directly to humans and cause a SARS-like outbreak, warn researchers, including one of Indian-origin. SARS, short for severe acute ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus also depends on an enzyme, called Mpro, to replicate in host cells. Because cruzain and Mpro are ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the evolutionary origins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Previous work has ...

Some viruses move between species. For example, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can spill over from humans to mink, an agricultural species, and then spill back from mink to humans. Spill ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a fatal respiratory illness caused by newly identified severe acute respiratory ...

In early 2020, multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was recognized as an emerging life-threatening disease occurring 2 to 6 weeks after infection with severe acute respiratory ...

Researchers from China report the initial findings of the first human trial for a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus. The results are promising, suggesting that the vaccine is ...

Multiple recent cases of SARS-CoV-2 have shown that cold-chain food and environmental contamination play a role in the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but through human contamination. In addressing that, the ...