Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Andes strain responsible for the current outbreak is the only known hantavirus capable of spreading person to person - ...

The story of the rise and fall of western equine encephalitis as a lethal disease offers essential lessons about how a pathogen can gain or lose its ability to jump from animals to humans. That story ...

How do we know when an animal virus might pose a risk to humans? Canada confirmed a human case of H5N1 avian influenza (often ...

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 study led by ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Combined infection with bird flu and human flu could lead to mutations ...

Not all parts of a virus can change so freely, though—some are 'conserved' and cannot mutate without loss of function. Montgomerie says these parts are great targets because antibodies against them ...

Health officials investigating the deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius say there is currently no evidence that the virus has mutated to become more contagious or severe.

A new, non-peer reviewed study says Merck's COVID-19 pill, Lagevrio, can mutate the coronavirus. Merck claims the study is circumstantial and lacks proof. The effectiveness of Covid-19 drugs is often ...

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 ...

I LEARNED a lot about pandemics and epidemics during Covid-19 as it was the first real epidemic that affected me, and I assume most of us directly. I wasn’t in Hong Kong during SARS and other ...

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 ...

A crack unit of virologists from around the world has concluded that the Andes hantavirus is subtly mutating as it spreads, but that the current outbreak will likely burn out. Scientists in South ...