GERMANY’S spy bosses believe there is a 80 to 90 per cent chance that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, a report claims. Foreign-focused spooks in Berlin made the bombshell claim the ...

civet cats and bamboo rats. The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new ...

They think it then infected another species, probably racoon dogs, civet cats or bamboo rats, which in turn infected humans handling or butchering those animals at a market in Wuhan, where the ...

GENEVA—Rare Chinese masked palm civet cats, a medicinal food animal in Southern China eaten to reduce the chance of winter infections like colds and flu, contain the coronavirus thought to cause ...

Sometimes called the civet cat, the palm civet is a small ... cases of an unexplained pneumonia turned up in the Chinese city of Wuhan, people were on high alert for a connection to the wildlife ...

Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and the impact of the virus and policies that followed are still being felt to this day. The germ didn’t ...