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Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

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Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

New findings add weight to the theory that COVID-19 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Experts point to lax ...

Identification of HKU5-CoV-2 (a member of the HKU5 lineage 2), a new merbecovirus found in bats of Zhejiang, Anhui, and ...

Betacoronavirus hongkonense, commonly known as human coronavirus HKU1 (HCoV-HKU1), is a species of coronavirus that affects ...

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