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M113A2 DAREOD (Damaged Airfield Reconnaissance Explosive Ordnance Disposal) – EOD variant of the M113A2 Mk 1 with 265 hp Detroit Diesel engine. This variant is equipped with a 1-man turret, external fuel tanks, additional search lights and Pearson mine-clearing equipment.
Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021.
On 26 November at an emergency meeting in Geneva, Switzerland WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution designated PANGO lineage B.1.1.529 a variant of concern (VOC) and gave it the designation Omicron (skipping Nu and Xi, the next letters in the Greek alphabet in keeping with its nomenclature protocol introduced for the Delta variant).
These include the alpha, beta, delta and omicron lineages. Omicron (B.1.1.529) began circulating in the fall of 2021. Since then, the omicron virus variant has mutated and given rise to new ...
Scientists have warned that a coronavirus variant like omicron, which appears able to dodge some protective antibodies generated by the vaccines, could be a major setback in the pandemic.
Now designated Omicron by the World Health Organization, the variant was detected and announced by South Africa's National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Nov. 25 from samples taken ...
The term variant of concern (VOC) for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is a category used for variants of the virus where mutations in their spike protein receptor binding domain (RBD) substantially increase binding affinity (e.g., N501Y) in RBD-hACE2 complex (genetic data), while also being linked to rapid spread in human populations ...
BA.2.86 has more than 30 mutations compared to the omicron XBB.1.5 variant, the dominant strain for most of 2023 and the variant targeted in the updated COVID-19 vaccine, TODAY.com previously ...