The "highly mutated" variant could evade the latest COVID booster shot. What to know.

BA.3.2 is a heavily mutated Omicron subvariant first detected in South Africa in 2024 and now confirmed in more than 20 ...

A new COVID variant, nicknamed "cicada," has spread through more than half the nation, including Kentucky, according to the ...

A heavily mutated offshoot of the Omicron lineage has now been detected globally, the CDC reports.

Health officials first confirmed BA.3.2 in the US from a traveler arriving from the Netherlands in June 2025, and it has ...

The COVID-19 variant BA.3.2, nicknamed "Cicada," has been detected in at least 23 countries and half the states in the U.S.

The variant has been detected in 25 states and 23 countries so far.

BA.3.2, a new COVID-19 variant, has been detected in wastewater samples from 25 states. The variant has mutations that could evade immunity from a previous infection or vaccination.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the highly divergent SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2 was first ...

After first being detected in 2024, a highly mutated, formerly "underground" COVID-19 variant has reemerged and is spreading ...

In fall 2025, rumors spread that the strain of the virus in circulation that causes COVID-19 had "very different signs" compared to other strains of the virus. Referring to it as "COVID-25," people ...