In its investigation of the outbreak, the city health department has identified about 170 people who have probably been exposed to tuberculosis. But overall, “the risk of TB for people who live, work, ...

All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their ...

The new "FLiRT" COVID-19 variants, including the now dominant KP.2 strain, are circulating in the US. Experts discuss symptoms, transmission, and vaccines.

A study by scientists at the University of Oxford, has unveiled crucial insights into the way that COVID-19 vaccines mitigate severe illness in those who have been vaccinated.

“CDC Nowcast projections estimate a quickly emerging Omicron JN.1 descendant, KP.2 (also called JN.1.11.1.2), to account for ...

About 680 women died last year during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to provisional CDC data. That's down from 817 deaths in 2022 and 1,205 in 2021, when it was the highest level in ...

A study from Japan, awaiting peer review, suggests that KP.2 may be less infectious than its predecessor JN.1. Despite this, ...

The letters in FLiRT variants are based on the technical names of their mutations, one which includes the letters F and L, ...

Latest news and updates on the impact of a new strain of coronavirus on Hong Kong. The virus causes the disease Covid-19 and the World Health Organisation has declared the spread of the infection ...

Enterovirus activity increased last week, with nearly 14,000 hospital visits reported, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition, which meets about every 6 ...

Within the FLiRT family, one variant in particular has risen to prominence: KP.2, which accounted for about 25% of new ...