When alarmed health care workers sent samples of what appeared to be a new virus to China’s “batwoman” for urgent testing late last year, the renowned virologist admitted she was skeptical. “Drop ...

Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan Institute of Virology scientist issued the warning in an interview on Chinese television network CHTN.

Chinese scientists, led by Shi Zhengli, have discovered a novel coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, that can infect humans and other mammals. Isolated from the Japanese pipistrelle bat, this virus shares the ...

A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by Shi ...

Another coronavirus outbreak is likely to take place in future, according to a famous Chinese virologist The virologist is associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology The Wuhan Institute of ...

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli (L) is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei province on February 23, 2017. - The P4 epidemiological laboratory was built in co-operation with ...

A major point of contention in recent days has had to do with how exactly the coronavirus originated. It’s been believed all along that the virus’ first human contact came from a wet market in China’s ...

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, better known as 'Batwoman' for her work on bat viruses, has said that a future outbreak of coronavirus is "highly likely". Shi is the Director for Center for Emerging ...

China’s now-notorious “bat woman” — the head of the Wuhan lab accused of being a possible source for the pandemic — has warned that deadly new mutations of COVID-19 will continue to emerge. Virologist ...

Shi Zhengli, the deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said in an interview Monday on China Global Television Network that new viruses being discovered, such as Covid-19, are "just the ...