The current vaccines will still prevent severe illness and hospitalization. Since the emergence of several new COVID-19 variants across the globe, scientists have been racing to understand their ...

Deadly mpox variant Clade 1b spreads in Europe amid rush for vaccines - Mpox cases continue to rise in parts of Africa, three ...

A group of Nigerian, British, and U.S. doctors have discovered a genetic variant that increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease in people of African and mixed-African descent and is not seen in those ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina, state health officials said ...

There is still some hope that the AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and Oxford COVID-19 vaccine will prevent severe disease from the South African variant of coronavirus, according to the professor who found it had ...

LONDON - Developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the vaccine’s lead researcher said Sunday. Health ...

Sweden confirmed it had its first case of mpox, a disease formerly known as monkeypox, shortly after the World Health Organization declared an international health emergency over Africa’s escalating ...

An international team of researchers has identified a genetic variant—the first new genetic variant related to HIV infection discovered in decades—that may explain why some people of African ancestry ...

Reason for concern, but not unnecessary alarm, researchers say. The first real-world study pitting COVID-19 variants against the Pfizer vaccine showed that the variant first detected in South Africa ...