In a research published in the PLOS Journal, the scientists in China have revealed about some never-before-seen viruses in the bats that live close to humans. These viruses are quite closely related ...

HKU5 merbecoviruses have been found across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. They seem to use a viral spike protein to bind to host cells, and they utilize ACE2 to infect those cells (like ...

Alarmingly, scientists have recently discovered a new coronavirus variant in China, named HKU5-CoV-2, which they say is only a small mutation away from being able to infect humans. So, Covid-19, our ...

Test positivity for common cold coronaviruses significantly declined following widespread SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 ...

As of May 2023, the WHO recommends the use of a monovalent XBB.1 descendent lineage, such as omicron XBB.1.5, as the vaccine antigen for COVID-19 vaccines. However, BA.2.86 and its descendent lineages ...

Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists worried about another possible pandemic. This virus originated in bats ...

What is the virus? The pathogen in question is HKU5, which is naturally found in the Japanese house bat. HKU5 is a subgroup of the merbecovirus, which is itself a subcategory of the coronavirus ...