posted by mike kraft
on Thu, 2022-09-22 17:24
A team led by researchers from Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Health has discovered a virus in a Russian bat similar to the virus behind COVID-19 that is “likely capable of infecting humans” and would be resistant to current vaccines, according to a news release.
Researchers discovered that the virus – which they are dubbing Khosta-2 – could be capable of infecting humans, and was resistant to antibodies produced by the COVID-19 vaccine.
Both Khosta-2 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, belong to the same subcategory of coronaviruses.
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