The XEC COVID-19 variant is poised to become the dominant variant worldwide. Now is a good time to get an updated COVID ...

Stacker consulted research from Yale Medical School and the World Health Organization to find how SARS-CoV-2 has evolved ...

The XEC variant first gained attention in June and July 2024, following a surge in Germany. It has since spread rapidly across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. As of Oct. 10, more than ...

The new XEC variant is a recombinant of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 strains, and has been deemed to be more transmissible due to ...

Ireland has reported a significant increase in cases of the new XEC Covid variant, now accounting for 20.6% of cases in ...

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first ...

The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a ...

Meanwhile, COVID activity remained low amid a shift in variant proportions and RSV levels rose in 3 US regions.

Confirming the imminent arrival of the cooler temperatures, Ireland weather expert, Alan O'Reilly, of Carlow Weather, told his followers on X: "A cooler trend on weather models from next week but ...

The trial will be conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in partnership with Emergent BioSolutions.

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