TWiV 933: Island-hopping bats
- September 4, 2022
- Tagged as: ACE2, Angavokely virus, bat, coronavirus, COVID-19, Hendra virus, henipavirus, Madagascar, Nipah virus, Omicron, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, spike protein, viral, virology, virus, viruses
TWiV discusses a new henipavirus from fruit bats in Madagascar, and attenuation of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron disease in mice caused by genome mutations outside of the spike protein coding region.