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Viral genome sequences indicate the teen was infected with the type of H5N1 typically found in wild birds and that it had mutated to better cleave to the respiratory tract.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024

Analyses of the circulating virus showed it had mutated to allow replication in the A. albopictus mosquitoes, which have a different range from its original host, A. aegypti.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 29, 2023

When it arrived, the lowrider was clearly unlike anything anyone had imagined: It had mutated.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2022

By the end of the ’60s, Diamond was a serial chart-topper; by the early ’70s, he had mutated into the Lord Byron of soft rock, all strutting gloom and troubled romanticism.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

His nose and mouth had mutated into a snout filled with yellow fangs.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda