Health News | Study Sheds Light on Origins of Omicron Virus
Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. First discovered a year ago in South Africa, the SARS-CoV-2 variant later dubbed "Omicron" spread across the globe at incredible speed. It is still unclear exactly how, when and where this virus originated. Now, a study published in the journal Science by researchers from Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin and a network of African institutions shows that Omicron's predecessors existed on the African continent long before cases were first identified, suggesting that Omicron emerged gradually over several months in dif...