A new Covid-19 subvariant, BA.3.2, nicknamed Cicada, is being tracked in the US and other countries. Experts say it carries ...

The BA.3.2 'Cicada' Covid variant has been detected in 23 countries with over 70 mutations. Here's what experts say about its ...

Infections of the BA.3.2 variant of the COVID-causing coronavirus are still at very low levels, but experts are concerned it ...

BA.3.2 is a heavily mutated Omicron subvariant first detected in South Africa in 2024 and now confirmed in more than 20 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...

A recent scientific article suggested that the novel coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 epidemic has mutated into a more "aggressive" form. Is this something we need to worry about? No, and here ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...

A mutation that could allow Covid-19 to escape antibody protection has now been found in samples of a rapidly spreading strain in the UK, according to a report Monday by Public Health England. A ...

The genome sequences of millions of individual SARS-CoV-2 viruses have enabled researchers to study evolution in a way that wasn’t possible before. The coronavirus’s global proliferation means that we ...