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Chinese researchers have identified a crucial mutation in the Ebola virus that significantly enhanced its infectivity during ...

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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 ...