A respected U.S. scientist researching the evolution of the COVID-19 virus has uncovered an intriguing mystery with potentially troubling implications: Some of the virus’ earliest genetic fingerprints ...

Chinese health officials are defending their search to find the source of the coronavirus and criticized the leader of the World Health Organization after saying that China should have shared genetic ...

Thus far, researchers have not identified ancestral viruses that could have plausibly given rise to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19—so says a new report from the Scientific Advisory Group ...

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday the organization is still working to determine the origin of the Covid-19 virus and that “all hypotheses” remain on ...

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on the origins of COVID-19 – particularly a ...

Revelations that the US Department of Energy and the FBI believe that the COVID-19 pandemic likely started in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, have put the prospect of a lab leak back in the news. And ...

Today, Americans are more likely to believe that the novel coronavirus, which causes Covid, came from a lab rather than from an animal infecting a human, even though most studies overwhelmingly ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- He's one of the nation's leading vaccine scientists and on Tuesday, Dr. Peter Hotez spoke to ABC11 to weigh in on a new report that the U.S. Department of Energy said it now ...

For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Responding to comments ...

Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them. By Benjamin Mueller Ben Mueller has been covering the ...

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.