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Centaurus
seems to spread even faster than Omicron BA.5
and it could be associated with more serious diseases. For this it is required
under close observation
both from
Ecdc
the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, both from
Oms
World Health Organization, although studies on its greater danger are still ongoing.
“It is difficult to predict the effect of so many mutations that appear together: they give the virus a ‘wildcard’ property in which the sum of the parts could be worse than the single parts – he explained to the Guardian the virologist of Imperial College London,
Tom Peacock
which was the first in November to locate Omicron. According to Peacock, the Centaurus subvariant “is definitely a potential candidate for what’s to come after BA.5. If not, it’s probably the kind of thing we’ll have next, which is a variant of a variant.”
“Last year we were very convinced that Delta represented an evolutionary pinnacle for the virus, but the emergence of Omicron and the vast increase in the variability and evasiveness of antibodies is a sign that we cannot, as a population, follow a similar plan. – flu to keep up with viral evolution “, he noted, instead,
Stephen Griffin
a virologist at the University of Leeds.
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