Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the United States enters the thick of respiratory virus season, a highly mutated COVID-19 variant called BA.2.86 is spreading ...

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(CNN) — Scientists around the world are fast-tracking lab experiments to try to understand the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of the virus that causes COVID-19. Results just beginning to emerge are ...

Cases of the COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.2.86, also known as Pirola, have tripled in two weeks, comprising between 5% and 15% of all infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across ...

As the United States enters the thick of respiratory virus season, a highly mutated COVID-19 variant called BA.2.86 is spreading and causing an increasing proportion of cases across the country.

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 ...