Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was ...

A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. [AP Photo/Ng Han Guan] In ...

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus make a visit on ...

Review and Outlook: New CIA director John Ratcliffe says the most likely cause of the Covid 19 pandemic was a lab-related incident in Wuhan, a judgment the Biden administration kept secret. Photo: ...

New documents show that the United States Agency for International Development reportedly sent thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan, China, during the course of a decade-long program, despite ...

A 2023 declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said there was no sign that the Wuhan lab ever had the virus or one closely related to it before the outbreak.

Donald Trump has made a bold move by issuing an executive order to terminate all federal funding for risky virus research in countries deemed hostile or lacking proper regulation, five years ...

On April 18, 2025, the Trump administration replaced the federal COVID-19 resource hub, COVID.gov, with a single-page platform titled, “Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19.” The site erased ...