Reuters: Brazil's P1 coronavirus variant mutating, may become more dangerous -study
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil’s P1 coronavirus variant, behind a deadly COVID-19 surge in the Latin American country that has raised international alarm, is mutating in ways that could make it better able to evade antibodies, according to scientists studying the virus.
Research conducted by the public health institute Fiocruz into the variants circulating in Brazil found mutations in the spike region of the virus that is used to enter and infect cells.
Those changes, the scientists said, could make the virus more resistant to vaccines - which target the spike protein - with potentially grave implications for the severity of the outbreak in Latin America’s most populous nation.
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Update #1: The P.1 coronavirus variant is twice as transmissible as earlier strains (Science News)
Update #2: Why Americans should "be very worried" about the COVID variant tearing through Brazil (CBS)
WNU Editor: I am surprised that more countries are not following France's lead .... France suspends all Brazil flights over P1 Covid-19 variant as scientists sound alarm (AP).
2 comments:
For what it's worth people are starting to not care.
Loads of Brazilians are entering Britain on Italian passports. Last year people were travelling to Britain from countries badly effected by covid. What was the point of the lock downs? More to this than meets the eye. Keep ducking 🙉
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