In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers investigated the receptor affinity and antigenicity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron BA.2.86. The ...

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 ...

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.

What is BA.2.86, and how is it related to earlier variants? BA.2.86, nicknamed Pirola, is a highly mutated new omicron sublineage of SARS-CoV-2 that was first detected in Denmark in July 2023. The ...

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 ...

Health authorities and scientists say they are now racing to study BA.2.86, a new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, after the highly mutated variant was spotted spreading in multiple countries ...

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 World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have announced another addition to their lists tracking variants of COVID-19 — and this one may be a little different.