Omicron subvariant spreads through India, US.
"It's still really early on for us to draw too many conclusions," Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., told the"But it does look like, especially in India, the rates of transmission are showing kind of that exponential increase."
Shishi Luo is head of infectious diseases for the company Helix, which supplies viral sequencing information to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andthat seeing this new variant popping up around the world "is an early indication it is spreading." In addition to India and three recent cases in the United States, BA.2.75 has been detected in 10 other countries, including Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Experts worry that this variant can more easily bind to cells and evade the body's protective antibodies. But
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