2024-01-18 00:52:14
Today information emerged about a new experiment that Chinese scientists are carrying out: They study a new mutant strain of Covid-19 which has a 100% mortality rate, according to the effects generated by one of the tests with mice.
According to international media, the virus, called GX_P2V, attacked the brain Mice designed to reflect a genetic makeup similar to that of people.
“This underlines a risk of spread of GX_P2V to humans and provides a unique model to understand the pathogenic mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses,” the study authors wrote. However, The study results did not indicate how it would affect humans.
The GX_P2V is a mutated version of GX/2017, linked to coronavirus which was discovered in Malayan pangolins in 2017, three years before the pandemic.
The scientists were able to observe that infected mice died within eight dayswhich they noted as a “surprisingly rapid” mortality rate.
The virus infected the lungs, bones, eyes, trachea and brain of dead mice. Likewise, in the days before their death the mice lost weight rapidly, showed a hunched posture and moved extremely slowly.
According to the researchers, It is the first study to show a 100% mortality rate in mice infected by the virus linked to Covid-19, far exceeding the results previously reported in another study.
About, François Balloux, expert in epidemiology at the Institute of Genetics at University College London, reacted in his account of «terrible» and he thought that at the level
scientist was “totally useless”.
In an article published by the New York Times, Balloux He remarked that “It is worrying that part or all of this research, such as the investigation in Wuhan in 2016-2019 that probably caused the Covid-19 pandemic, has been carried out recklessly without minimum biosafety containment and practices essential for research with potential pandemic pathogens.
With information from Argentine News.
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