Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images An alleged warning has spread online for years about a supposed "new COVID-Omicron XBB variant" — a new strain of the ...

On Friday, the World Health Organization categorized a new strain of COVID-19 that was recently detected in southern Africa as a "variant of concern." The WHO's Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus ...

Largely ignored by governments and trade unions, a new SARS-CoV-2 variant is spreading at great speed: the “Stratus” or “Frankenstein” variant, XFG. It is causing high levels of sickness absence in ...

In fall 2025, rumors spread that the strain of the virus in circulation that causes COVID-19 had "very different signs" compared to other strains of the virus. Referring to it as "COVID-25," people ...

A sore throat that feels like swallowing glass—a.k.a. “razor-blade throat”—has become one of the most talked-about of the new COVID symptoms linked to Stratus, the strain of the virus driving new ...

Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines significantly reduced the risk for hospitalization and severe outcomes despite the emergence of new viral lineages.

An alleged warning has spread online for years about a supposed "new COVID-Omicron XBB variant" — a new strain of the coronavirus that has spread globally since early 2020. Framed as official guidance ...