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 ...

Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the world ...

Most of the time when a virus mutates, the resulting variants are benign or even weakened versions of the pathogen. But the coronavirus is spreading practically uncontrolled all over the world, which ...

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 ...