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How South African scientists discovered the troubling omicron variant
- Deanne Drexler
- December 5, 2021
- African
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- omicron
- scientists
- South
- troubling
- variant
In early November, laboratories in South Africa’s Gauteng province began picking up something unusual while processing Covid-19 tests: they weren’t able to detect the virus gene that creates the spike protein enabling the pathogen to enter human cells and spread. Around the same time, doctors in the region saw a sudden flood of patients with […]
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