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Health officials are planning to scale up efforts to fight disease with a high mortality rate.

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THE strain behind the deadly Ebola outbreak rapidly spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo is feared to be mutating. More than 4,000 infections have been confirmed by officials, along ...

Avian influenza viruses typically require several mutations to adapt and spread among humans, but what happens when just one change can increase the risk of becoming a pandemic virus? A study led by ...

Cases have passed 4,000 and health watchdog plans to go door to door to find patients in major response escalation ...

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I LEARNED a lot about pandemics and epidemics during Covid-19 as it was the first real epidemic that affected me, and I ...

Health officials investigating the deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius say there is currently no evidence that the virus has mutated to become more contagious or severe.

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 ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...