Health
UK coronavirus variant spreading rapidly around the world likely emerged from a single infection – ABC News
We may never know exactly how the UK variant came to be, but it seems likely that about six months into the pandemic, the virus found the perfect human body to…

Like every other virus before it, SARS-CoV-2 has only one goal: to survive.
The longer an outbreak rages, the more people contract but survive the infection, leaving the virus with a dwindling number of vulnerable bodies to infect.
Download the ABC News app for all the latest.
Its best chance of longevity is to evolve.
In doing so, the virus has to strike the right balance. If it becomes too deadly, it risks killing its host before finding another.
So the trick is to become more transmissible, but…
-
Noosa News20 hours ago
Woman was watching keepers work when lion attacked, Darling Downs Zoo says
-
General23 hours ago
Developer warns wind energy capacity may not be ready by WA coal deadline
-
Noosa News19 hours ago
Working for someone else made it hard to care for my daughter. So I quit
-
General23 hours ago
Disloyal far-left breakaways are coming for Labor