At the time, this was quite a novel idea. Flu and COVID evolution do differ in important ways, but chronic COVID infections, too, are now being examined as harbingers of the future.

Quirks and Quarks13:14New COVID variants: what’s driving the virus to evolve, and what we can do about it The rampant spread of COVID-19 and concern about potentially more transmissible variants ...

Another possible source of variants could be through animal hosts. The virus that causes COVID-19 can infect several animal species, including mink, tigers, lions, cats and dogs.

Viruses are the most diverse and abundant biological entities: they are widely known, fast-evolving, and have adapted to be able to infect all life forms. Despite this, their origin and ...

As a world-leading authority on virus evolution, Eddie Holmes wasn't surprised when COVID-19 first appeared. Like many people who study the emergence of infectious diseases, Professor Holmes ...

“When you have a pandemic or an epidemic at some point in evolution, the population that is targeted by the virus either adapt s, or goes extinct. We knew that, but what really surprised us is the ...

Viruses are the most diverse and abundant biological entities: they are widely known, fast-evolving, and have adapted to be able to infect all life forms. Despite this, their origin and ...