'Deltacron' Hybrid Virus Almost Certainly Doesn't Exist, Scientists Say

According to experts, the Deltacron hybrid coronaviruses is most likely the result of a lab contamination and not a new worrying variant.

The discovery was described by the media as having the genetic background of the Delta variant along with some of the Omicron variant.

Scientists analyzing the discovery of Deltacron say it is unlikely that coronaviruses will combine.

The "Deltacron" sequence reported by several large media outlets look to be quite clearly contaminated, according to Tom Peacock, a virologist with the infectious diseases department at Imperial College London.

The head of the COVID-19 Genomics Initiative at Britain's Wellcome Sanger Institute said that there are some possible flaws in the genome that are vulnerable to error.

He said Monday that it was almost certainly not a biological replica of the Delta and Omicron lineages.

Scientists are eager to battle a lot of online misinformation about COVID-19.

The World Health Organization dismissed the reports of a "flurona" or "flurone" virus that was a combination of the flu and the coronaviruses.

Let's not use words like Deltacron. Maria van Kerkhove is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the WHO.

She said that the words imply a combination of viruses.

People can suffer from both coronaviruses and flu at the same time.

There have been cases of simultaneous infections of the flu and coronaviruses, which are nothing new, in contrast to the new variant of COVID-19 called Omicron.

The coronaviruses has given rise to dozens of variations, four of which have been designated "of concern" by the WHO.

Agence France-Presse.