Health
UK and US Covid variants ‘combine’ into hybrid sparking fears of more contagious mutant – Mirror Online
Dr Bette Korber at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico believes she has identified a potentially worrying new hybrid which is a recombination of the Kent…
Two Covid variants from Britain and the US have combined into the first mutated hybrid, a scientist has warned.
The ‘recombination’ strain, made up partly of the highly transmissible Kent variant, raises concerns the world may be on the brink of a new phase in the pandemic.
The B117 strain, first discovered in England before the country was thrust into a third national lockdown appears to have mutated with another which has been running rampant in Los Angeles and which is resistant to antibodies.
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