IHU, there is a new variant discovered in France that comes from Cameroon. Here’s what we know

Patient zero came from a trip to Cameroon and at present it has been found on 12 people in the South East of France, precisely in the municipality of Forcalquier in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. The new variant B.1.640.2 of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, which is added to the recent Omicron, was called IHU and had been identified by researchers at the IHU Institute of Marseille already in early December, although it is not yet under the lens of the World Organization of Health.

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IHU is made up of a super amount of mutations, 46 (Omicron has about thirty), but to date there is still insufficient data to understand how much it is actually transmissible, aggressive and if it is capable of evading the neutralizing antibodies, induced by the anti vaccine. Covid or generated by a natural infection.
What emerged clearly is his familiarity with a previous variant, B.1.604, identified last September in Congo and France and already under surveillance by the WHO.

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