"It's going to be very important this fall and winter for people with upper respiratory symptoms to wear masks," says a ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The currently circulating variants of the Omicron strains, these recombinants with ... in the process of genetic exchange between various virus variants. "Therefore it is not entirely correct ...

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 ...

We're in the middle of flu season, and a new variant of COVID-19 is making its way through Canada. The XEC strain, a hybrid ...