17 June 2020 14:00Alla Lysak
COVID-19 mutated and became even more dangerous
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Scientists have discovered a mutated COVID-19 virus that infects humans 2.5 to 8 times faster.
A dangerous new mutation has led to the fact that virus settles in the human body faster, and the immune system does not attack it immediately, according to an article published in the scientific electronic library bioRxiv.
The D614G mutation has enabled viral particles to spread faster between a wide variety of human cell types.
The lungs, liver and intestines are most seriously affected. During the experiment, the researchers proved that the new strain increases the presence of viral particles in the intestines by 2.5 times, in the lungs by five times, in the liver by almost eight times.The mutation made the task of the immune system more difficult, it is more difficult to recognize it, the enzymes destroyed the shells of the mutated coronavirus much more slowly.
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