Flu has overtaken covid in infections and hospitalizations during the winter respiratory virus season, and their virulence is ...

Covid has continued to mutate and spread since the World Health Organization declared an end to the public health emergency ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- As new variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge, a new study is giving insight into how COVID-19 surveillance programs can be used to design more effective annual vaccine boosters. "Now ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the COVID-19 delta variant as one of its "variants of concern" (VOCs) on June 15. According to the CDC, VOCs can be more contagious, more ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers say it is important to track how the coronavirus mutates because it could affect the efficacy of a vaccine. Like all living cells, viruses evolve their ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...

A tiny genetic mutation in the SARS coronavirus 2 variant circulating throughout Europe and the United States significantly increases the virus’ ability to infect cells, lab experiments performed at ...

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With measles outbreaks, flu spikes, and COVID as a seasonal threat, learn key differences between these contagious diseases, symptoms, vaccine advice.

COVID-19 vaccinations were shown to reduce virus-related hospitalizations and severe disease-associated outcomes in immunocompetent adults. The findings from a recently published JAMA Network Open ...