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Did pets produce a new variant? These are the scenarios that experts fear Israel today

2022-01-18T14:43:38.176Z


The omicron wave may pass soon, but new variants may be around the corner because the virus has not yet exhausted its ability to perfect itself.


Are you used to memorizing the Greek alphabet to the omicron?

Well you will probably need to learn more letters in Greek as experts around the world estimate that the omicron variant is not the last seen in relation to the corona virus.

The main reason for this is due to the so fast adhesion of the omicron, which spreads around the world like fire in a field of thorns.

In this way the virus has a wider cushion of possibilities to upgrade and develop new mutations, in part because the vaccines work against its symptoms but are not intended to prevent spread. 

In this regard, Leonardo Martinez, an epidemiologist at Boston University, says that "a wide-ranging immunization campaign should be launched around the world.

According to Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University, "the more people it infects, the more it reaches people with weak immune systems and so it has the potential to upgrade itself and develop a more advanced version of itself."  

Dr. Campbell, also cools the enthusiasm from the fact that the omicron is less toxic than the delta and says that “the fact that a less dangerous mutation has developed does not necessarily mean that the next mutation will be the same.

It is true that viruses do not directly want to kill their host but there may be a strong mutation that will not kill straight but will infect a lot of people and then hit its host hard.

The form of development is not always in the direction of weaker mutations.

"Evolution has a lot of ways to evolve," he says.

Super mutation or virus that will recover from animals

Two other dangers that may occur are patients who will develop several corona mutations at the same time - Omicron and Delta for example - and that the encounter between the different strains will create a mutation with the benefits of the different strains so that it will be more contagious and more lethal.

Also another concern is infection from humans to their pets and then the formation of a new corona virus among pets that will skip back to humans.

In relation to the current reality, Dr. Prabhut Ja from the Center for Global Health Research at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto states that “we are in a state of huge failure in global leadership.

The fact that there are not enough vaccines is not good and yet it is the virus that leads and not us the doctors. "

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Source: israelhayom

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