Famous immunologist Nikolić žugić for kurir: 'Omicron a zombie, simmering in a single person for a year, which is a precedent'

Kurir 28.09.2022
Famous immunologist Nikolić žugić for kurir: 'Omicron a zombie, simmering in a single person for a year, which is a…

"Omicron is the so-called zombie variant of the virus, and I really couldn't predict it.

Unlike all the other coronavirus strains, it seems to have been simmering for a year in a single person in South Africa, whose immune system was compromised by immunosuppression due to, e.g. cancer or AIDS. In that person, the virus had the opportunity to improve, and this is why it has so many mutations. Omicron is a precedent, such a case has previously been unknown – a virus strain that is so easily transmitted that it has infected so many people," Professor

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