Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the United States enters the thick of respiratory virus season, a highly mutated COVID-19 variant called BA.2.86 is spreading ...

Several public health organizations are monitoring a new COVID-19 variant. The latest variant, BA.2.86, nicknamed Pirola, has several mutations to its spike protein. There have only been 71 cases ...

Nearly 1 in 10 new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are from the BA.2.86 variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Monday, nearly triple what the agency estimated the highly mutated ...

The World Health Organization has notched up the status of the coronavirus strain BA.2.86 and its offshoots, naming it a “variant of interest,” although the organization says the current risk from ...

Health authorities and scientists say they are now racing to study BA.2.86, a new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, after the highly mutated variant was spotted spreading in multiple countries ...

The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across ...

As the United States enters the thick of respiratory virus season, a highly mutated COVID-19 variant called BA.2.86 is spreading and causing an increasing proportion of cases across the country.