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Get ready for a MERS-SARS-CoV2 recombinant pandemic with a death rate of ~ 40%.
The world has gone mad. They may have unwittingly prepared the scenario for a MERS recombinant with SARS-CoV2. MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) has a Case Fatality rate (CFR)/ Death Rate of around 40%, but is not highly transmissible between humans, definitely not like the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus. MERS is a zoonotic virus that is usually…
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A new RECOMBINANT variant XBC.* has formed in the Philippines
Recombinant variants are are not formed by mutations but when two strains/variants combine/crossover inside the same cell, which transferases part of the mRNA of one variant and that of another and combines them. This can only happen of a person is simultaneously infected with 2 variants at the same time. So far not too much…
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XBB is a recombinant variant
XBB is a recombinant variant, which means it was not derived from a mutation but from the crossover of 2 Omicron subvariants BA.2.75 and BA.2.10.1. Experts are saying they are not concerned about XBB but that is just guessing as there are changes in the SARS-CoV-2 virus that are not just limited to the spike-protein,…
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Move over for BA.12. Ten-times more infectious than BA.2
A new variant of the novel coronavirus, BA.12, was found in Bihar’s Patna on Thursday. According to the state’s health department, the new variant of Omicron was found in the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS). There is a new kid in town and we have not dealt with waves from BA.2.9, BA.2.2, BA.2.12, BA.2.12.1,…
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Omicron BA.2 is quite different from Omicron BA.1. BA.2 is now generating it’s own subvariants. There are now 54 variants of Omicron.
I have always regarded the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron and potentially more dangerous than BA.1 as it is quite different. Up until a week or so ago, BA.1 had generated 19 new subvariants BA.1.*, e.g. BA.1.1 and BA.1.14, and BA.1.17. Now BA.2 is developing new subvariants, like BA.2.1 and BA.2.3. They have appeared in South…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases