Segmented RNA viruses are important pathogens of humans, animals and plants. An understanding of how these viruses replicate and evolve during their spread in nature is expected to inform disease ...

A new study uncovers how Oropouche virus is breaking out of the Amazon, spreading across Brazil and beyond. Scientists warn that environmental changes, human mobility, and viral evolution are driving ...

Emory scientists have been probing the RNA packaging factors that limit reassortment between avian H7N9/H5N8 strains and a well-known strain (H3N2) that has been dominating the last few human flu ...

A new study finds that a process called reassortment, a kind of viral sexual reproduction, between the virus responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1) and a common type of avian flu virus (H9N2) ...

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As the H5N1 avian influenza virus continues its rampage through U.S. dairy cow herds, it has also infected human farm workers. A different strain has also infected workers on poultry farms, most ...

Major disease-tracking platform predicts the risk of a mutant variant will increase five-fold this winter Maeve Cullinan Global Health Security Reporter Maeve Cullinan is a reporter for The ...