“All viruses naturally mutate. Mutations in themselves are not a bad thing and there is nothing to suggest SARS-CoV-2 is mutating faster or slower than expected,” he says. “So far we cannot say whether SARS-CoV-2 is becoming more or less lethal and contagious.” Avoiding “easy evasio...
All viruses mutate when they replicate in order to adapt to their environment. Scientists have tracked multiple mutations of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, since it appeared in China in late 2019. The vast majority of mutations did not materially alter either the virus's virulen...
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A diminished magnetic field was suggested to be conducive for viruses and bacteria to mutate, hence the onset of pandemics. Nonetheless, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe [46] reported that the link between solar activity and pandemic outbreaks is only speculative. The literature noted that the data recorded...
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But flu viruses can also mutate quickly, and since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting a growing variety of mammals, including dairy cattle. That has scientists on alert because the more it circulates in animals, the better it gets at finding new hosts. A study published last week in the jou...