The ChiComs have introduced a new scariant

[midnight rambler]

The ChiComs recycled MERS and are saying it was discovered in S. Africa, how convenient, that's a long way from China - and the ME. New, improved, much more scarier mutation.

https://sputniknews.com/20220127/chinas-scientists-warn-of-potential-high-fatality-transmission-rate-of-coronavirus-neocov--1092550863.html

[monty]

More fear porn: https://sputniknews.com/20220127/chinas-scientists-warn-of-potential-high-fatality-transmission-rate-of-coronavirus-neocov--1092550863.html




The NeoCoV virus, related to the Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS-CoV, linked with outbreaks in countries of the Middle East in 2012 and 2015, is not new. It is also similar in many ways to SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 in humans.

NeoCoV was found in a population of bats in South Africa and to date has spread exclusively among these animals. Yet the new study (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.24.477490v1), not yet peer-reviewed and released in preprint on the bioRxiv website, unexpectedly discovered that NeoCoV and its close relative, PDF-2180-CoV, can use some types of bat Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and human ACE2 for entry.