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Talking to the House of Commons Technologies and Science Committee members on Tuesday, Burton said that simultaneously contracting the two variants \u201ccertainly gives an opportunity for the two viruses to, what we call, recombinate<\/em>,\u201d which means that they could begin to \u201cshare genes and to swap genes over<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n The danger of this happening is particularly high in immunocompromised people, Burton said. When asked if the combination of the two strains could lead to worse Covid-19 symptoms than usual, Burton said that \u201cit certainly could.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n He added that in the current situation, with Omicron spreading so rapidly, and given the high number of the Delta infections, \u201cit is really important to think about it.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Burton was not the only scientist to offer a warning on the potential Delta-Omicron combination. On Wednesday, Aleksandr Semyonov, head of Russia\u2019s Vector virology research center\u2019s branch in the city of Ekaterinburg, said there exists a possibility of a person catching two strains of a virus at the same time.<\/p>\n This, however, is a \u201crather rare phenomenon<\/em>,\u201d Semyonov told RIA Novosti news agency.<\/p>\n \u201cVarious virus mutations affect different organs in different ways<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n No major outbreak is known to have resulted from recombination events so far in the pandemic. In one widely reported case, a 90-year-old unvaccinated woman in Belgium died in March after simultaneously catching the Alfa and Beta variants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n ___ Catching both Delta and Omicron may result in super-mutant virus The combination of the Delta and Omicron Covid variants, which may result from a person contracting both at the same time, could create a new, more dangerous strain, Moderna\u2019s chief … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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