Scientists have identified a new coronavirus in Brazilian bats which carries a key genetic feature also found in Sars-Cov-2, ...

REGISTRO, Brazil (Reuters) – Escaped slaves in Brazil seeking to live freely often set up communities called quilombos where their former owners could not find them. But the coronavirus has found its ...

Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that may pose a danger to human health in the years to come. Scientists are ...

Orlando Martínez had barely heard of COVID-19 when 26 members of his Warao ethnic group came down with tell-tale symptoms of the illness. “At first they got a fever and couldn’t eat. Then, they got ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - On Friday, May 1, two workers on the PXA-1 offshore platform owned by Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras checked into the facility's infirmary complaining of headaches ...

The bat harbored the BRZ batCoV virus, which the researchers say has likely been silently circulating in Latin America for ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) – As Brazil’s daily COVID-19 death rate climbs to the highest in the world, a University of Washington study is warning its total death toll could climb five-fold to 125,000 by ...

Cases of the coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil are increasing in the U.S., according to CDC data updated April 8. 1. The CDC confirmed 434 cases of the variant, known as P.1, in 28 states ...

Brazil registered 1,179 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Tuesday, as the pandemic exacted its worst daily toll yet in the hardest-hit Latin American country. The ...

RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil blew past Italy's toll on Thursday, while Mexico reported a record number of new cases, as regional leaders in Latin ...

Scientists have discovered a new coronavirus, BRZ batCoV, in bats from Brazil — the first of its kind found in the Americas.