XEC is the product of a recombination (exchanged pieces of genetic material between two variants) between the KS.1.1 variant and the KP.3.3 variant. These two parent variants are closely related ...

XEC is a recombinant of two previous variants, KP.3.3 (a descendent of the FLiRT variants) and KS.1.1, Dr. Albert Ko, an infectious disease physician and professor at Yale School of Public Health ...

Covid XEC, a new variant of Coronavirus discovered in Germany in June, is spreading rapidly across Europe. This hybrid of omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 may become the dominant strain by ...

There’s a new coronavirus subvariant catching the attention of global doctors and researchers: it’s being called “XEC.” ...

The latest is the aforementioned XEC variant. The XEC is basically the love child of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 COVID-19 variants. It’s yet another Omicron variant because, OMG, we’ve been stuck on ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. The XEC COVID variant spread rapidly in Denmark ...

The "X" in XEC's name comes from the fact that the strain looks to be a "recombinant" of two other closely related parent variants called KS.1.1 and KP.3.3. Both KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 are descendants ...

Data show that XEC is a hybrid of Omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3. (In case you’re not familiar with it, KP.3.3. is an off-shoot of KP.3, one of the FLiRT variants that widely circulated ...

Another COVID-19 variant is on the rise this fall, hot on the heels of a massive summer surge of the virus. The variant, ...

First detected in Germany in June, XEC is a combination of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 variants. According to reports, it has already overtaken the previously dominant FliRT strain of the deadly virus.

The XEC variant is a hybrid of the earlier omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, which is currently dominant in Europe. But XEC’s mutations could help it spread more easily this autumn ...