As the virus infects more humans, especially if those cases are not closely surveilled, it creates more opportunities for the virus to mutate and mix with other viruses that are already good at ...

STAT News Video - Video. How — and why — coronaviruses mutate. Posted: May 3, 2025 | Last updated: May 3, 2025. Most of the time when a virus mutates, the resulting variants are benign or even ...

The virus that causes mpox has typically been fairly stable and slow to mutate, but APOBEC-driven mutations can accelerate viral evolution, said Dr. Miguel Paredes in August, who is studying the ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, July 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A common virus once thought harmless to ...

In both of those cases, virus samples showed that once it was in the body, it mutated in ways that would allow it to stick to cells in the mucous membrane lining the upper respiratory tract.

In severe bird flu cases, the virus can mutate as it lingers in the body As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

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 ...

As the virus infects more humans, especially if those cases are not closely surveilled, it creates more opportunities for the virus to mutate and mix with other viruses that are already good at ...