More than 20 million people have now been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus in the United States. About 350,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. Now health officials have detected the new ...

A global study has found strong evidence that a new form of the coronavirus has spread from Europe to the US. The new mutation makes the virus more likely to infect people but does not seem to make ...

A ferocious surge of flu cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in a waning of natural immunity.

In a sealed lab, a string of code has become something stranger and more unsettling than software. Using artificial intelligence, researchers have written the genetic instructions for a virus that has ...

Bird flu has always worried pandemic planners, but a new twist is raising the stakes: scientists are now tracking variants that can keep multiplying even when a human body turns up the heat. A strain ...

A variant strain of the coronavirus, one that was first discovered in the United Kingdom, is now the dominant strain of the virus circulating throughout the United States, CDC Director Rochelle ...

At least 14 states and Washington, DC, are reporting high or very high flu activity. The dominant flu strain, a version of influenza A (H3N2) called subclade K, has multiple mutations that make it ...

Amid the push to get the COVID-19 vaccine to many as possible to stem the pandemic, a new variant of the coronavirus that exploded in Brazil and has since been reported in the U.S. is causing concern ...

COMPANY PROMOTED AND MONITORED OPIOIDS. RIGHT NOW, AT 446 IN THE AFTERNOON, WE TURN OUR ATTENTION TO FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH, AND THERE IS A NEW VARIANT OF THE FLU VIRUS THAT’S CREATING AN EARLY SURGE OF ...