While COVID-19 cases are down overall nationwide, the Cicada variant is quickly gaining ground, new data shows.

Its official name is BA.3.2, but it’s earned the nickname "cicada" because, analogous to the insect’s pattern, it first appeared back in 2024, went dormant for a while, and resurfaced in the U.S. late ...

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.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cicada broods emerge on a schedule, and in 2025 brood XIV will invade a number of states. Cicadas have been annoying for as long ...

As a kid growing up in Virginia, I have vivid memories of the 17-year cicadas. They were enormous, dangerous-looking ...

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

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

(NEXSTAR/WHTM) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy insects ...

Vaccination and past infection may not protect against a new strain of the COVID-19 virus known as Cicada. Here's what you ...

The Cicada COVID variant has been making headlines lately, though it isn’t the virus’s official scientific name.