Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new COVID-19 variant is climbing the ranks in the United States, becoming the third-most common strain of the summer. Variant ...

(NewsNation) — While COVID-19 isn’t the deadly and dangerous virus it was five years ago, it has still found a way to poke its ugly head into the health world. The latest problem to arise: the variant ...

As is the case every year, new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 are circulating in Europe. In Germany, the variant XFG is now dominant. It is often referred to in the media as the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus — and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel. That variant, known as “subclade K,” led to ...

A new form of the flu, which is highly contagious and aggressive, is sweeping the nation this season. A mutation of influenza A H3N2, called subclade K, has been detected as the culprit in rising ...

A particularly infectious subvariant of influenza is keeping emergency room numbers high and causing especially severe ...

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