Deltacron: Should we be worried about the new variant?
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English - March 22, 2022 04:38 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The words 'Delta' and 'Omicron' are as common as bread and butter these days, but what about their lesser known offspring Deltacron?
It's a combination of the two viruses that has been detected in the United States and Europe.
So should we be worried about it reaching our shores?
Evolutionary virologist Dr Jemma Geoghegan explains the unholy union.