Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

The flu virus is changing in ways never seen before, increasing infections and raising concerns about vaccine effectiveness and public health risks.

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.

It’s hard to say something nice about viruses, but Dr. Joaquín Martínez Martínez can. Dr. Martínez Martínez is a new aquatic ...

The researchers note that viral evolution of hemagglutinin can lead to resistance against vaccines and can sometimes lead to the virus jumping to other species more easily. They also caution that ...

"However, a small number of mutations can change that – giving new viruses very different properties than their close ...

This work reminds us that the use of vaccines in animal health can have unexpected consequences. Better understanding these effects is crucial to adapt strategies against avian flu and prevent ...

Understanding Avian Influenza Virus The H5 virus is a strain of influenza A that does not ... More research is needed to determine if the mass vaccinations are causing the AIV to evolve faster or if ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.