Posted on 01/05/2022 4:46:08 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal
The seriousness of a stagnant COVID-19 variant identified in France in November was downplayed by global health officials, who said they were still watching it closely on Tuesday.
The variant, nicknamed IHU after the research hospital it was discovered in, “probably” originated in Cameroon, scientists said last week. It was identified in 12 patients in the Southern Alps around the same time the highly transmissible Omicron variant was surging in South Africa, officials said.
The variant “has been on our radar,” Abdi Mahamud, a WHO incident manager on COVID, said at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg. “That virus had a lot of chances to pick up.”
The news came as France saw its average daily caseload more than double in a week, with a record 271,686 COVID-19 cases recorded there Tuesday.
IHU’s patient zero had just returned from Africa when scientists at IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseilles discovered he was infected with an atypical mutation of the virus. The vaccinated man “developed mild respiratory symptoms the day before diagnosis,” researchers wrote in their non-peer-reviewed article published in medRxiv.
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I wonder if a variant will originate in somewhere like Nebraska or Manitoba?
An institute naming a new variant after itself does suggest some researchers looking to make a name for themselves...
What if Omicron and Delta got together in a vaccinated person and had unbelievably bad children. I have read the vaccine allows the virus to mutate in an infected person.
Those pesky White Supremacists and their open-air bushmeat / wet markets again!
Regards,
But those bio-weapon lab scientists in Wuhan were pretty humble, weren't they?
Regards,
A virulent strain is circulating the halls of Congress and the bureaucracies of Washington DC. It rots the brain, weakens the spine and destroys the ability to produce testosterone. RINOs are particularly susceptible.
*** variant will originate in somewhere like Nebraska or Manitoba? ***
Anybody suggest these are not variants but new separate attacks?
Plenty of Chinese virus mules in Africa and universities.
The IHU variant? Oh ok, does that stand for “I Hate U” in Chinese?
Must not fit whatever the official agenda is
I guess that would make DARPA and Ralph Baric gracious, in that they wanted to deflect the credit to Wuhan!
I’ve yet to find how quickly most viruses mutate. This monster seems to be mutating quickly so it very well could be coordinated attacks.
Like South Africa, Cameroon has a strong ChiCom presence. In SA it’s a large, recently arrived ChiCom immigrant community and large number of Chi owned businesses. In Cameroon it’s a deep govt to govt relationship. Two years ago the original deadly CCP virus came out of Italy where, especially in the industrial North, large numbers of Chinese business reps resided. Anyone see a pattern.
Remember the Doctor at the School Board Meeting that discussed the futility of trying to vaccinate our way out of a pandemic where there is animal reserves? He was immediately canceled.
Chinese scientists indicate Omicron mutations occurred in mice and jumped back to humans.
Add to the list of things our government overlords have been wrong about.
the synonymous/asynonymous mutation rate is so out of whack it makes you wonder where those ‘mice’ lived, in the wild or in a nice biolevel 4 building?
Indeed! One of the preprint authors is none other than the infamous Didier Raoult, the director of the IHU Institute, who was vilified after he advocated the use of HCQ because of its effectiveness in treating the original SAR-CoV! I’m sure he is getting some satisfaction in that the media has to positively report on their discovery after so vilifying them at the start of the pandemic.
While the world may regard Raoult as a quack and the French government tried to revoke his license to practice medicine, in Marseilles they love him because he worked so hard to save their city from the original virus. He set up a huge tent outside the Institute and personally early treated thousands who came down with Alpha and achieved a lower death rate by doing so.
Interesting—I wasn’t aware of those specifics!
this is the best way for ccp to kill republicans... get them to distrust any vaccines and/or cures and them infect them. while they keep the real cure/vac (not yet released to public) for the new world order.
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