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It's not clear yet whether the BA.2.86, also known as the pirola variant, causes more severe illness, public health officials say.

It's not clear yet whether the BA.2.86, also known as the pirola variant, causes more severe illness, public health officials say.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More health officials across the U.S. are reporting new cases of the COVID variant BA.2.86. On Thursday, a genome sequencing team at Houston Methodist Hospital said it had identified the first case in Texas, a member of team wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. On the same day, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff confirmed that one case has been detected in his state. These states join Michigan, New York and Virginia, according to health officials and the open global genome sequencing database GISAID. There have been hundreds of va...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More health officials across the U.S. are reporting new cases of the COVID variant BA.2.86. On Thursday, a genome sequencing team at Houston Methodist Hospital said it had identified the first case in Texas, a member of team wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. On the same day, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff confirmed that one case has been detected in his state. These states join Michigan, New York and Virginia, according to health officials and the open global genome sequencing database GISAID. There have been hundreds of va...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More health officials across the U.S. are reporting new cases of the COVID variant BA.2.86. On Thursday, a genome sequencing team at Houston Methodist Hospital said it had identified the first case in Texas, a member of team wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. On the same day, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff confirmed that one case has been detected in his state. These states join Michigan, New York and Virginia, according to health officials and the open global genome sequencing database GISAID. There have been hundreds of va...