A new variant, XEC, is emerging in the United States, according to a tracker on the Center for Disease Control's website. The ...

The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) confirmed the presence in the southern part of the continent's largest country of a sublineage of the Sars-CoV-2 Omicron strain known as ...

The latest coronavirus strain, XEC, makes up 17%. It is another descendant from the Omicron family, according to Yale ...

Yet another strain of the virus that causes mpox might be readily spreading from person to person, according to an analysis ...

Westmead Institute for Medical Research Centre for Virus Research director Tony Cunningham ... Professor Purcell said the first Omicron strain was an "escape" variant that required an updated ...

A new variant of COVID called XEC — a combination of two Omicron subvariants — is spreading in the middle of flu season.

All known circulating strains of the COVID-19 virus on the planet right now are descendants of the omicron variant that was first detected in late 2021, Engelthaler said. "There is no more need to ...

Over the last few years, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19, has undergone significant changes, evolving from the original wild-type strains to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

As a virus circulates, it continues to mutate ... which were targeting the original omicron strain. “These new strains are as different from [the original] omicron as omicron was from the ...

More than 30,000 people in Japan died of COVID-19 in the first year after most coronavirus-related guidelines were lifted in ...