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The corona virus has mutated, and this is not necessarily bad news
Researchers have discovered in recent months that the corona virus has undergone a mutation whose results are still unclear. They now estimate that this is indeed a more contagious but less deadly version. Now it only remains to be seen if this will hurt the effort to find a vaccine
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Although the number of corona cases continues to climb around the world, it seems that the number of deaths from the virus is actually declining. why is it happening? Scientists think they have found the answer. An increasingly common mutation of the new corona virus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more contagious but appear less deadly, according to a senior infectious disease doctor interviewed by Reuters.
Paul Tambia, a senior adviser at Singapore National University and president-elect of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, said evidence points to the spread of the D614G mutation in some parts of the world in parallel with declining death rates, suggesting it is less fatal.
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"Maybe it's a good thing to have a virus that is more contagious but less deadly," Tambia told Reuters. According to Tambia, most viruses tend to be less deadly as they change. "It is in the interest of the virus to infect more people but not to kill them because the virus depends on the host for food and shelter," he said.
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Scientists have discovered the mutation that affects the prickly protein - the structure the virus uses to enter cells it infects, as early as February, and it has spread in Europe and America, the World Health Organization said, adding that there is no evidence the mutation led to more serious disease.
Mutated. Corona virus (screenshot: NIAID-RML)On Sunday, Malaysian Health Director Nur Hisham Abdullah urged the country's citizens to pay more attention to health guidelines after authorities discovered the corona virus D614G mutation in the last two clusters of infection. Nur Hisham in Malaysia said that the D614G strain found there was 10 times more contagious and that vaccines currently under development may not be effective against this mutation.
Experts estimate that such mutations will not change "The virus is enough to make potential vaccines less effective." (The versions) are almost identical and there are no areas that our immune system normally recognizes, so there should be no difference in vaccine development, "they said.
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