EG may sound like a whole new flavor of the virus, but it’s not; it’s a spinoff of the XBB recombinant strain of the Omicron family. And it represents another incremental tweak to the virus ...

A new coronavirus variant, EG.5, now accounts for the largest proportion of Covid infections in the U.S., according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over a two ...

An omicron subvariant called EG.5 has become the most prevalent version of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S. by a narrow margin, according to CDC estimates. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a new sub-variant of Covid called EG.5 - unofficially named "Eris" - a variant of interest and is asking countries to monitor it as cases grow ...

But while this latest coronavirus strain, EG.5, appears to be more infectious and able to sneak past our immune defences, experts aren't seeing evidence that it causes more severe illness.

A new sub-lineage of the Omicron COVID variant now makes up one in seven cases in the UK. EG.5 and EG.5.1 are descendants of Omicron, which was first detected in South Africa in late-2021 before ...

職域の感染症管理も専門とする鈴木氏に、5類感染症に移行するも、第9波の不安がささやかれる新型コロナの現在について、変異株「EG.5」にいかに備えるかを以下、ご寄稿いただいた*。