Ein potenziell mutierendes Fledermausvirus hat einige Wissenschaftler, die sich Sorgen um die nächste Pandemie machen
https://theweek.com/science/mutating-bat-virus-pandemic
Ein potenziell mutierendes Fledermausvirus hat einige Wissenschaftler, die sich Sorgen um die nächste Pandemie machen
https://theweek.com/science/mutating-bat-virus-pandemic
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The pathogen in question is HKU5, which is naturally found in the Japanese house bat. HKU5 is a subgroup of the merbecovirus, which is itself a subcategory of the coronavirus that causes diseases like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
> The pathogen in question is HKU5, which is naturally found in the Japanese house bat. HKU5 is a subgroup of the merbecovirus, which is itself a subcategory of the coronavirus that causes diseases like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
> Even though most merbecoviruses are „unlikely to have the capacity to infect humans, the HKU5 subgroup can“. The study found that HKU5 is able to „latch onto the ACE2 receptor on target cells.“ **This is the same method that the coronavirus strain identified in 2019 uses to transmit Covid-19.** HKU5 „may be only **a small step away** from being able to spill over into humans,“ Michael Letko, a virologist at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine
> Other researchers have downplayed the idea that HKU5 could ever make its way into humans. Chinese scientists first identified the strain in early 2025, and „there is no reason to believe it currently poses a concern to public health,“ a spokesperson for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told CNN at the time.
Thanks reddit, that’s about enough internet for me today. How do I turn this thing off?
Maybe we’ll get lucky and this one will put an end to the failed simulation that is the 2020s.
Another bat? When will it ever be fish’s turn? Give them a chance
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alarm-as-dutch-lab-creates-highly-contagious-killer-flu-6279474.html
Friendly reminder Sam Altman from chatgpt built his underground bunker because of this Dutch Lab that was creating Bird Flu’s ( like the one that spiked Americans egg prices )
Food for thought
All the best viruses jump from animals to humans!
/s
Who had bat virus epidemic for 2025? Seems your odds came through.
Oh no biggie. Cause we’re taking pandemics seriously now that this trump administration is taking the needs of our people first and foremost!
At this point, I’m okay with this. Humanity had its chance and decided to shoot itself in the face.
HU5K is unable to infect the general human population in its current form. The article is literally just saying “yea but a *mutation* could occur and make it infect humans”.
Sure but some mutation(s) could also happen to the common cold and that could start the next pandemic as well. The type of mutation that they’re referring to is unlikely, the same way the common cold isn’t getting mutated to be the next Covid 19.
Put the toilet paper back on the shelf and resume your lives, a new Covid-19 like pandemic could emerge today, or it could emerge in a decade. The mutations are random, but HU5K itself doesn’t make it more likely, you could find similar ones that with mutations could cause a pandemic.