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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
World
David Kent

Scientists warn dangerous Russian bat virus could infect humans - and it resists Covid jabs

US scientists are warning that a recently discovered virus found in Russian horseshoe bats is also capable of infecting humans and evading Covid-19 antibodies and vaccines.

The world is still suffering with Covid, which originated in a Chinese bat - but now Khosta-2 could follow it.

The medical term for the new spread is sarbecovirus, which comes from the same sub-category of coronaviruses as SARS-CoV-2.

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