BEIJING -- The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility ...

Five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, the World Health Organization is still reporting deaths from the virus. More than 3,000 people died in the last month, adding to the more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Office buildings sit empty in Michigan BEIJING (Reuters) -China restated its case that COVID-19 may have originated in the United ...

LOS ANGELES -- Two additional flights of evacuees fleeing the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan China are scheduled to land in California on Friday. The flights chartered by the U.S. State Department, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, covers health, medicine, wellness and science The NB.1.8.1 variant of the severe acute respiratory ...

A new coronavirus with the potential to spread among humans has been discovered by Chinese researchers. A team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as 'Batwoman' for her work on coronaviruses, ...

China said Monday it was "extremely unlikely" COVID-19 came from a laboratory, after the CIA said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. "The ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Nov 4 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday reported 17 new confirmed coronavirus infections in the mainland for Nov. 3, down from 49 a day earlier, the health authority said, although ...

Emergency room nurses wear face masks at Second People's Hospital of Shenzhen in China in February 2020. (Man Yi/UN photo) An epidemiologist specializing in outbreak detection and response told ...