Viruses evolve quickly mainly because of how they replicate and mutate. Unlike cells, viruses must invade a host cell and hijack its machinery to copy themselves, often producing huge numbers of new ...

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different influenza viruses mix. A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was ...

Researchers have developed a new way to prevent people falling ill with potential pandemic level viruses - before they have ...

Although hantavirus can be deadly, researchers say the virus behaves very differently from COVID-19 and is easier to contain ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. A positive COVID-19 test in Berlin on Feb. 9, 2023. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. About three-quarters of people in the U.S. have had COVID-19 at least once, ...

U.S. cases of hantavirus are rare, and generally don't transmit person to person. Hantavirus does not easily mutate and spread like COVID-19 and flu viruses do, making it easier f ...

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 ...