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 ...

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 ...

Experts consulted by Newsweek say hantavirus is unlikely to spark a pandemic because it transmits poorly between people.

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

The findings show how the H5N1 bird flu virus is evolving in livestock and what that may mean for human health.

During the early stages of a pandemic, viruses tend to evolve in ways that enhance their ability to reproduce and spread, ...

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 ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

Scientists have developed an innovative antibody platform aimed at tackling one of the greatest challenges in treating rapidly evolving viruses like SARS-CoV-2: their ability to mutate and evade ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...