The novel coronavirus is mutating, as viruses do, and eight strains are now making the rounds globally, medical experts say. The good news is that the mutations are not more lethal, said Trevor ...

Nipah Virus Outbreak LIVE Updates: Globally, the case fatality rate is estimated to be between 40 per cent and 75 per cent, ...

Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists worried about another possible pandemic. This virus originated in bats, as ...

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 discovered that a rapidly-mutating, species-jumping virus is contributing to mass honeybee deaths that are threatening the U.S.'s multi-billion-dollar agricultural industry, honey ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a crucial mutation in the Ebola virus that significantly enhanced its infectivity during a ...

A single modification in the protein found on the surface of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating in U.S. dairy cows could allow for easier ...

Any time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction. When someone dies from the bird flu—as an elderly Louisiana man did on Jan. 6, ...

The probability of mutation of the Nipah virus in the direction of increasing its contagiousness is currently extremely low.

Chinese scientists studying the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in Congo found a mutation, GP-V75A, that made the virus spread faster and infect cells more efficiently. The variant replaced earlier strains ...