Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

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The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...

A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long ...

Thirty years ago, it was our common sense understanding that hantavirus does not and perhaps cannot spread from human to ...

A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and the U.K. has found possible evidence that bird flu vaccinations are driving ...

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. The work, published today as a Reviewed ...

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Most animal viruses never become pandemics because they must overcome multiple barriers, including receptor mismatch, immune ...