It is thought the XEC strain is more transmissible due to its numerous mutations, and presents symptoms similar to those of ...

Two people sharing a home caught the virus without known exposure to animals. More than 30 human cases have been reported in ...

The CDC is "monitoring the XEC variant," Rosa Norman, a CDC spokesperson told USA TODAY. This variant "is the proposed name ...

Everything you need to know about Rwanda's outbreak of Marburg virus, which has been described as one of the deadliest human ...

XEC has become the second most prevalent strain in the country, according to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), representing more than 1 in 10 cases. But ...

A new variant of COVID called XEC — a combination of two Omicron subvariants — is spreading in the middle of flu season.

A virus reservoir in the body may explain why some people experience long COVID symptoms. A recent study indicates that long ...

The number of bird flu cases has risen to 31 in the U.S. but there is no evidence of person-to-person transmission, the CDC ...

Health chiefs said though the risk to the wider population was low, the situation was being watched "very closely" after the ...

The new clade Ib variant of the mpox virus has been detected in Germany for the first time, the country's leading public ...

A new strain of Covid emerging in the UK is spreading ... is more transmissible due to its numerous mutations, and presents symptoms similar to those of other Covid variants including tiredness ...