Being responsible and sheltering at home is one way to limit the spread of COVID-19. Changing our relationship with wildlife and farm animals, however, would help keep deadly zoonotic diseases out of ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories has confirmed SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans, in a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...

Intensive confinement of animals in factory farm operations should be discontinued worldwide for the sake of animals, humans, and the environment, and we should rapidly evolve to eating other forms of ...

A new report from a World Health Organization panel has determined that COVID-19 originated in China likely through "zoonotic spillover," when a virus or bacteria is transferred from a wild animal ...

People who recovered from COVID-19 infection or were vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to have immunity to other closely related bat coronaviruses that could threaten future human health.

COVID-19 immunity may extend beyond COVID-19 itself. In the lab, antibodies from people who recovered neutralized bat coronaviruses that have never infected a person.

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