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The hantavirus from the MV Hondius outbreak has been sequenced from samples taken from one of the infected individuals. The ...

Avian influenza viruses typically require several mutations to adapt and spread among humans, but what happens when just one change can increase the risk of becoming a pandemic virus? A recent study ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Chickens are pictured at a poultry farm in Mexico on June 6, 2024. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. At least 58 people in the U.S. have been infected by the H5N1 ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled “A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors”.

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the coronavirus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves later, ...

This month’s story comes from the Bloom lab using their signature deep mutational scanning technique to identify mutations in the surface protein of Lassa virus -called glycoprotein- that escape ...

In 2018, health authorities in southern Argentina were scrambling, trying to understand what had caused nearly three dozen ...

An HIV patient in Oslo has been in remission for the past five years following a stem cell transplant from his brother, who was found to be resistant to the virus, marking what could only be the 10th ...