The variant, which has an unusually large number of mutations, has also been spotted in numerous countries, but remains rare for now.
from the global virus database GISAID, labs have reported finding BA.2.86 in samples from Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington.Too few sequences of the virus have been reported to show up on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's biweekly variant, which still show that a long list of closely related XBB variant descendants are driving virtually all infections around the country.
"The diversity is less than what appears. Many of these lineages actually have identical spike sequences. We've observed this before, where we see convergent evolution and viruses evolving to have the same substitutions," said Natalie Thornburg, a laboratory branch chief in the CDC's Coronaviruses and Other Respiratory Viruses Division.of the agency's vaccine advisers last week, said it was still too early to know"if BA.2.86 will be of any significant circulation.
Health authorities do believe BA.2.86 is continuing to spread widely around the world, after scientists first voiced concern"We are concluding this because some of the people infected with BA.2.86 do not have known links to other infected individuals and did not recently travel to an area with known cases of illness from BA.2.86," the CDC said Friday
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