A new COVID variant is spreading rapidly and could soon become the dominant variant around the globe. The variant, called XEC, was first detected in Germany in August and appears to have a growth ...
As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly ...
XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of omicron’s features, too — like less severe symptoms and easy transmissibility.
No, there is no new evidence that Covid originated with a raccoon dog in a market in Wuhan. The public relations blitz that ...
A cheap new test using origami paper sensors can detect infectious diseases like COVID-19, much more quickly than current PCR ...
Samples taken in the pandemic's early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a ...
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Long COVID: Lasting effects of COVID-19
COVID-19 can have lasting symptoms that affect many parts of the body. Learn more about the symptoms and effects of long COVID.
A new strain of the mpox-causing monkeypox virus spreading in central Africa is the latest scourge to set off a global health ...
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine has received a positive recommendation from the European ...