The currently dominant COVID-19 variant in Germany has been referred to as the 'Frankenstein' variant. Here's why.

The new ‘Frankenstein’ or XFG COVID-19 variant, a recombinant strain formed from Omicron lineages, is rapidly spreading ...

Summer heat, outdoor fun ... and cold and flu symptoms? The three may not go together in many people's minds, partly owing to common myths about germs and partly because many viruses really do have ...

A potentially more transmissible variant of the coronavirus first identified in India has been fanning record daily tallies there of around 380,000 cases and 3,500 deaths as dozens of countries offer ...

The delta coronavirus strain is seen in this electron microscope photo provided by Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases. TOKYO -- Coronavirus infection numbers are exploding, and severe ...

Health officials have confirmed Japan now has many cases of a new variant of the novel coronavirus that could make currently available COVID-19 vaccines less effective. The mutated strain of the virus ...

A new Covid-19 variant known as ‘Stratus’ is sweeping across the globe, with cases already on the rise in the UK. Statistics show Covid-19 cases are on the rise in England again as the new strains - ...

A new variant of the coronavirus, Nimbus, which has been detected in wastewater, has also appeared in Hungary, the National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy (NNGYK) said in a statement on Monday.

Why are there still travellers? And why still from Brazil? One of the worst managed and affected countries, after the US. The system in place for returning residents is not bad (covid test within 72 ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in ...