Original version

BBC World Service Online

Health Check

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Health Check: Hunt for rare resistance to SARS CoV-2

Magazines & Reviews

A woman walking in Manhattan

2021/11/03 GMT

Hunt for rare resistance to SARS CoV-2

BBC World Service - Health Check, Hunt for rare resistance to SARS CoV-2

The global hunt for people with a rare genetic resistance to SARS CoV-2 infection

The global hunt for people with a rare genetic resistance to SARS CoV-2 infection and more reassuring research into Covid vaccination in pregnancy.

An International team of scientists has launched a global hunt for rare people who may be genetically resistant to SARS CoV-2 infection. Individuals who’ve been exposed to the virus living in families where everyone else in the household got infected, who repeatedly tested negative and didn’t mount an immune response. Claudia Hammond speaks to immunologist Evangelos Andreakos, part of the team at the Biomedical Research Foundation in Athens about this fascinating quest. And Claudia hears from Norway about more reassuring research into Covid vaccination in pregnancy.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Erika Wright

(Picture: A woman walking on the streets of Manhattan, New York City. Photo credit: Lechatnoir/Getty Images.)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Health Check

Hunt for rare resistance to SARS CoV-2

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service