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The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. CNN values your feedback 1.

The man dies several months after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus – a pathogen closely related to rabies ...

Maybe it was really a quadruple-demic. A little known and underappreciated virus called human metapneumovirus spiked in the US this spring just after RSV, influenza and Covid-19 died down.

Also, the virus that has infected cows and poultry prefers binding to the surface proteins, or receptors, of bird cells and is not well-suited to human cell receptors. But all that can change if ...

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A previously unknown type of replicating agent, far smaller and simpler than a virus, has been found in the human gut. These entities have been called “obelisks” by their discoverers.

The virus does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2 does, the Chinese researchers reported in the journal Cell, noting some of its limitations.

Maybe it was really a quadruple-demic. A little known and underappreciated virus called human metapneumovirus spiked in the US this spring just after RSV, influenza and Covid-19 died down.

The virus becoming better adapted to the human cells is a start, but it wouldn’t necessarily be enough on its own to ignite an outbreak. “We need to do a lot of studies at this point.