Public health officials have detected the new BA.2.86 variant of COVID-19 in U.S. wastewater, giving rise to concerns about the highly mutated variant in the United States.
It was found as part of routine wastewater sampling. Officials did not specify where the samples were from.
That makes its evolution similar to what happened when the virus mutated from Delta to the highly contagious omicron in 2021, CNN reported."I think, and I think everybody concurs, that this is very likely to be a neutralization antibody escape mutant, which means that will be harder for our bodies to protect us from infection with this variant," said Bette Korber, a computational biologist at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico, according to CNN.
Korber is working to clarify the structure of this variant, so other scientists can build models of it in their labs, CNN reported."This is very early days. It was only discovered a week ago. So it may be that it just doesn't go very far because it's not competitive for other reasons," Korber said.
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