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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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BEIJING, April 22 -- Chinese scientists have deciphered the genetic code of a number of samples of the SARS virus and say their research could provide important clues as to whether the microbe will ...

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 ...

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 ...