Nearly 1 in 10 new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are from the BA.2.86 variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Monday, nearly triple what the agency estimated the highly mutated ...

Preliminary testing of wastewater in the United States has detected the new highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86, according to a risk assessment posted Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after a case of the highly mutated variant was discovered in ...

Only a handful of cases of BA.2.86 have been detected worldwide, but the strain’s alarmingly high number of mutations make it one to watch. Additional strains of COVID-19 continue popping up on a ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers investigated the receptor affinity and antigenicity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron BA.2.86. The ...

A COVID-19 variant once considered rare has tripled in U.S. cases in the past two weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mutated strain, called BA.2.86, accounts for ...

The CDC updated its risk assessment on distant omicron relative BA.2.86 on Aug. 30, saying the strain — which has concerned experts over the large number of mutations it carries — has been detected in ...

BA.2.86 has been detected on three continents so far, data shows. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is tracking a new lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19 after it was ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have announced another addition to their lists tracking variants of COVID-19 — and this one may be a little different.

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in Australia report the durability and dynamics of recalled severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike (S) ...