A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

If nothing else, the recently released interagency report documents the vast amount of effort that has gone into unraveling the origin story for SARS-COV-2. There are four possible versions of this ...

The House of Representatives voted unanimously Friday morning on a bill to declassify intelligence information on the origin of Covid-19, following two reports suggesting the deadly virus originated ...

After three long years, the COVID-19 global health emergency is over. So says the World Health Organization, which made that declaration on May 5. WHO is the sole agency tasked with orchestrating ...

With officials announcing the death of the first person due to the recently discovered Alaskapox, experts have raised concerns that the virus may have spread farther across the state amongst its ...

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday probed a panel of scientists on the origins of the Covid pandemic, pushing the theory that the virus most likely came from a laboratory leak at a research ...

A confidential document first reported on by The Wall Street Journal revealed two key facts about the U.S. government's efforts to identify the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.