Posted on 09/25/2022 4:15:28 PM PDT by billorites
Researchers say they have discovered a vaccine-resistant coronavirus in Russian horseshoe bats.
That finding was reported Thursday in the Public Library of Science Pathogens medical journal. According to the report, most sarbecoviruses found in animals do not effect humans, but Khosta-2 has the potential of “using human ACE2 to facilitate cell entry.”
Current COVID-19 vaccines are not believed to be effective against Khosta-2. Scientists determined a related virus previously found in Russian bats, Khosta-1, could not infect humans. But a team of researchers led by Washington State University researcher Michael Letko said it discovered through lab testing that human cells could be compromised by Khosta-2.
According to Time magazine, like the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Khosta-2 may have the ability to infect humans, but there’s no early indication it leads to serious illness in most people. Letko can’t say whether Khosta-2 will be a problem for humans, but he is concerned that it has the potential to contribute to a new variant.
“The worry is that SARS-CoV-2 could spill back over to animals infected with something like Khosta-2 and recombine and then infect human cells,” Letko told Time. “They could be resistant to vaccine-immunity and also have some more virulent factors.”
Khosta-2 was detected in 2020. It belongs to the same sub-category of coronaviruses as SARS-CoV-2. Amari Outlaw-Clark with her Banza Masterpiece’zas box designs.
The discovery of Khosta-2, according to researchers, also serves as a reminder that “sarbecoviruses circulating in wildlife outside of Asia also pose a threat to global health and ongoing vaccine campaigns against SARS-CoV-2.”
The coronavirus that fueled the COVID-19 pandemic is believed to have originated in Wuhan, China in 2019. It has infected more than 600 million people and led to more than 6.5 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
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Hopefully they will be served to Communist Chinese visitors showing solidarity with Russians. Bat soup, bat filets and batty nuggets.
But keep this away from the Western Hemisphere.
Cutting it a bit close with their “Midterm election” variant, aren’t they? Or is this intended to fester for a bit and become the “2024 election” variant?
WTF, the original virus and ALL it’s variants have been demonstrably vaccine-resistant!
Bats ... why'd it have to be bats?
COVID vaccines do not prevent contracting ANY coronavirus.
COVID vaccines do not prevent transmitting ANY coronavirus.
So far ALL coronavirus is “vaccine resistant”. LOL
Covid is already vax resistant as the vax is garbage.
Yay fear porn! 😃
This should not surprise anyone.
Several species of bats are known reservoir species for viruses. We don’t even know precisely why that is. It may come down to bats having a high metabolism resulting in higher body temperatures which may be just above the point where a virus can get a systemic foothold.
Chinese bats; Russian bats. Hmmmm.
This was reported in the Daily Mail on Tuesday.
I considered posting it then, but was afraid someone might take it seriously
They know its vaccine resistant because they bats with covid, and the ones the gave the vaccine to all died
Give Ralph Baric time and $10M.
He’ll find a way to make this virus more infectious to Humans.
You have to have faith in the system, people.
Ah, the next stage begins. With full media cooperation, one can rest assured.
I didn’t know that Russians played baseball.
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