Global experts are casting doubts over reports of a new possible Covid strain appearing to combine both the delta and omicron variants and dubbed “deltacron.”
Some experts have since cast doubt over the findings, with one World Health Organization official tweeting on Sunday that"deltacron," which was trending on the social media platform at the weekend, is"not real" and"is likely due to sequencing artifact," a variation introduced by a non-biological process.
In another tweet, she noted wryly:"Let's not merge of names of infectious diseases and leave it to celebrity couples" In another tweet, he noted that"quite a few of us have had a look at the sequences and come to the same conclusion it doesn't look like a real recombinant," referring to a possible rearrangement of genetic material.
Another high-profile scientist, Dr. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an infectious diseases expert at Emory University in Atlanta, advised a cautionary approach, tweeting on Sunday that"On the #deltacron story, just because I have been asked about it many times in the last 24h, please interpret with caution. The information currently available is pointing to contamination of a sample as opposed to true recombination of #delta and #omicron variants.
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