In 2020, a team of Russian scientists collected a few horseshoe bats in Sochi National Park in southern Russia. The Russians identified, in those bats, a new virus they called Khosta-2. Behaviorally, ...
A new respiratory virus is reportedly spreading through Russia, drawing unevidenced conspiracies from Russian state media and social media users that it is the work of a Ukrainian bioweapon. News of ...
A SARS-CoV-2 virus relative that was originally found in Russian bats may be capable of infecting human cells, according to a study. The authors of the paper, which was published in the journal PLOS ...
PULLMAN, Wash. — A team lead by Washington State University's (WSU) Paul G. Allen School for Global Health found that spike proteins from the bat virus (Khosta-2,) can infect human cells and resist ...