Have you ever wondered why you have to get a flu shot every year, but some vaccines are one-and-done? It all has to do with how and how fast viruses evolve - and that depends on mutation rates.

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different influenza viruses mix. A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of... What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about how viruses ...

Deborah Dunn-Walters receives funding from UKRI (BBSRC). She is affiliated with The University of Surrey, The British Society for Immunology and The Vivensa Foundation US health secretary Robert F.