Driving recent surges in SARS-CoV-2 infection rates are mutations that appear more transmissible, as well as waning immunity from prior infection or vaccination. By mid-September, the Centers for ...

Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter's dominant strain ahead of a possible summer uptick in coronavirus infections. The new FLiRT ...

"The fact it has happened twice in 18 months, two lineages (Alpha and then Delta) each 50% more transmissible is a phenomenal amount of change." It's "foolish", he thinks, to attempt to put a ...

Examples of transmissible bird diseases associated with pigeons, geese, starling and house sparrows: Besides being direct carriers of disease, nuisance birds are frequently associated with over 50 ...

The 'horror virus' occurs in bats but is transmissible to humans. The virus can also be transmitted via pigs. Those who get infected are at high risk of death as there is no vaccine against the virus.

And just over a year later, here we are again. Since the start of 2024, a deadlier, more transmissible strain of the virus has killed about 575 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

A newer variation of mpox clade 1, called clade 1b, appears to be more transmissible and is now spreading beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo to at least a dozen other countries in Africa ...

according to Public Health England analysis - suggesting it is roughly 50% more transmissible. But some of that could be the behaviour of humans, rather than the virus itself. When a variant ...

The new variant appears to be more transmissible, and is reportedly infecting many people without sexual contact. The emergence of a new mutant strain, or clade, is concerning as it indicates ...

Is clade Ib more transmissible than other types? The clade Ib virus has garnered particular attention because epidemiological data suggest that it transmits more readily between people than ...

Emmanouil Angelakis; Esam I Azhar; Fehmida Bibi; Muhammad Yasir; Ahmed K Al-Ghamdi; Ahmad M Ashshi; Adel G Elshemi; Didier Raoult ...

Committee Chair Professor Dimie Ogoina said: “The current upsurge of mpox in parts of Africa, along with the spread of a new sexually transmissible strain of the monkeypox virus, is an emergency ...