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 ...

As cold and flu season approaches, cases of COVID-19 are still spiking in many parts of the United States. The country has yet to emerge from a late summer COVID wave fueled by the highly contagious ...

COVID-19 variant XFG is spreading across the U.S., becoming the third most common strain. XFG is a combination of variants F.7 and LP.8.1.2 and may be less contagious than other dominant variants.

The Stratus COVID-19 variant has been fueling a rise in cases across the country. Stratus is currently the dominant variant in the U.S. This variant is slightly more infectious than previous variants.

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 ...