Tagged: flu

Monkeypox contacts: a puzzling problem

When it emerged that two people infected with monkeypox had travelled by plane through one of the world’s busiest airports, a media storm arose, with irresponsible headlines and exaggerations of risks for others in...

Antigenic evolution of viruses in host populations

Author summary Spread of many RNA viruses in a population represents a competition between host immune responses and viral evolution. RNA viruses accumulate mutations in immunologically important regions to escape immune recognition in hosts...