“XBB.1.16 – The Emerging Omicron Variant: Symptoms, Vulnerability, and Surveillance”

2023-04-30 09:11:00

Coming from Omicron, this variant has spread to around thirty countries around the world. In the youngest infected, the symptoms are similar to those of conjunctivitis in addition to the “classic” symptoms such as cough, high fever or great fatigue. Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva, explains: “Patients suffer itching in the eye, associated with redness of the conjunctiva, with a sticky eyelid”.

Health experts have also clarified that obese, asthmatic or immunocompromised children would be more vulnerable to these viral infections.”, reports the newspaper Times of India. This symptom was rather rare in Covid-19 contamination and results from a low vaccination rate among the youngest.

XBB.1.16, of its scientific name is under surveillance according to the WHO because this virus multiplies and mutates. For the moment, nothing shows that”Arcturus” gives severe forms of the disease.

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