Scientists are currently studying how well people are protected against severe disease from XFG. Researchers conducted lab studies using human cells and a "pseudovirus" stand-in for XFG, as well as ...

The World Health Organization has added the variant, known formally as XFG, to its monitoring list. A dry, irritated throat ...

A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other ...

A promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by researchers at the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney ...

The new strain, which has soared in recent weeks, is thought to be more infectious than previous Covid variants due to mutations its developed that help it evade the immune system.

Health Canada’s new COVID-19 vaccines targeting the KP.2 variant are available Monday. But with XEC on the rise, are they still effective?

Amidst rising concerns over new COVID-19 variants, India witnesses a surge in online searches related to symptoms, ...

“Midlife women often juggle caregiving, careers, and hormonal shifts that can strain the immune system,” Boden-Albala says.

The Trump administration is slashing health agency budgets and firing vaccine experts as highly transmissible variants threaten to double daily infections within a month.

OTTAWA—New, more contagious variants of COVID-19 are threatening Canada’s progress against the deadly coronavirus and could fuel a dramatic spike to beyond 20,000 new daily infections in the coming ...

After a fairly quiet spring, COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in the U.S. and SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps churning out new variants. The latest is a trio, KP.2, KP.3, and ...

A summer surge of COVID-19, driven by the new 'Nimbus' variant, is impacting at least 26 states in the US, including Virginia ...