The World Health Organization declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the COVID-19 virus to be a variant of concern on November 26 and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally dominant Delta...
Despite recent major advances in developing effective vaccines against toxoplasmosis, finding new protective vaccination strategies remains a challenging and elusive goal as it is critical to prevent the disease. Over the past few years, various experimental approaches have shown that developing an effectiv...
A new COVID-19 strain has emerged that appears likely to stick around in the U.S. through the holiday season. SEE: Latest Coronavirus and Vaccine News JN.1, which is a close relative to BA.2.86, is the fastest growing variant in the U.S. According to estimates from the Cen...
COVID-19: Omicron variant may transmit more through the air. What we know so far about B.1.1.529 strain found in southern Africa The new Omicron COVID variant may be more transmissible through the air, British scientists have said. Minutes from the latest meeting of the ...
Will Arcturus Lead to Another COVID-19 Surge? Although the subvariant appears to be more transmissible than the current dominant strain in the U.S., that doesn’t necessarily mean the U.S. will see more coronavirus cases as XBB.1.16 increases. Given that most ...
Valni Haughton, Head of Occupational Health at Cathay Pacific Airways, shares information about the current outbreak of COVID-19 based on expert advice from the WHO, IATA and Hong Kong’s local health authority, and how Cathay Pacific is responding to the situation...
U.S. have decreased 19.5%in the most recent week, with .4% of all emergency department visits being COVID-19 patients. The most recent data on the test positivity rate is from the week ending May 3, which was 2.9%. When test positivity is above 5%, transmission is considered ...
This is up from 7.1% a month ago. "That means that while KP.2 is proportionally the most predominant variant, it is not causing an increase in infections as transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is low," a CDC spokesperson told CBS News in a statement. The strain also does not have large ...
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And while a fast-growing new COVID variant called JN.1 is estimated to be driving a large share of the current winter wave of infections, officials say there have so far been no signs of new or unusual symptoms caused by the virus. Here's the latest about what we know about this ...