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"Threat to Humanity": The Lambda Variety Continues to Spread in the World | Israel today

2021-08-17T08:00:16.478Z


Studies have already shown that the new strain of corona virus is more resistant to vaccines and more contagious than previous strains. • The Ministry of Health is already closely monitoring:


"Will the heir of the Delta shuffle the cards again?" A new and worrying variant has been discovered that if he arrives in Israel - we will go to the closure, "a senior Ministry of Health official, Dr. Asher Shalmon, warned yesterday during a discussion in the Knesset's Constitution Committee.

Dr. Salmon, Director of the Department of International Relations at the Ministry, discussed the variant South American (Hlmda) has already spread to dozens of countries. So what do we actually know about it and whether to fear?



Yesterday it was reported that First cases of infection variant lambda discovered in the Philippines and on Sunday reported that the first case Was discovered in Greece.The origin of the variant is explicitly became the dominant strain of the virus and led to a severe outbreak that killed tens of thousands of people.



From Peru, the variant spread to other South American countries such as Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, although it did not become the dominant variant in any of these countries. It was reported in the United States yesterday that the lambda virus had been diagnosed in the city of Dallas, Texas in samples taken in June and July. The variant is now responsible for more than 95 of the new corona infections in the city.



A study published earlier this month revealed that the variant is much more resistant to vaccines than its predecessors and highly contagious. Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo have found that the virus' "sting" protein, dubbed the R, helps it neutralize antibodies produced by the vaccine. Two additional mutations found by Japanese researchers make the variant particularly contagious.

Japanese researchers believe that the World Health Organization's decision to define the learning variant as an "interest-bearing strain" instead of a "risk-causing strain" is a mistake because it clarifies to the public and world leaders the importance of stopping the variant. "The variant threatens residents of many countries. To human society, "says Kai Sato, a senior researcher at the University of Tokyo.



However, there is no consensus among researchers regarding the level of resistance of the variant to vaccines. "From tests we did, we found that the antibodies produced by the vaccines well neutralize the variant virus," Nathaniel Landau, a microbiologist at New York University, told the Washington Post.



There is also controversy about the degree of sticking of the variant as it has shown different sticking patterns in different countries to which it has come.  

Source: israelhayom

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