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Author: Claudinne Miller

Marburg virus disease – Equatorial Guinea

WHO Situation at a glance Since the first Disease Outbreak News on this event was published on 25 February 2023,  eight additional laboratory-confirmed cases of Marburg virus disease (MVD) have been reported in Equatorial Guinea. This brings the total to nine laboratory-confirmed cases and 20 probable cases since the declaration of the outbreak in February 2023. There […]

Mar 23, 2023

People who catch Omicron are less likely to get Long Covid

Science.org Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled across the United Kingdom, hematologist John Willan has worried about the disease’s toll on his patients. In March 2020, Willan, who works at the University of Oxford and Wexham Park Hospital, began to track the hospital’s COVID-19 cases among people with leukemias, lymphomas, and other blood diseases. He […]

Mar 23, 2023

Three years into the COVID pandemic, where is Nebraska headed?

Omaha World Herald After three years, COVID-19’s grip on Nebraska — and the nation as a whole — has eased significantly. During the first year, roughly 200,000 cases were confirmed in Nebraska. Thanks to a huge omicron spike, the second year brought even more cases — nearly 270,000, according to Centers for Disease Control and […]

Mar 22, 2023

New Staff for 2023

When I’m not researching and curating content for UNMC, I’m a flower farmer! Farming was never in the plans, it just sort of happened, and my husband and I couldn’t be more thrilled. We have 65 acres of a former tobacco farm, and the soil is a depleted dust bowl from over 350 years of […]

Mar 22, 2023

Analysis and interpretation of metagenomic data from the Huanan market.

Link to full text PDF In an attempt to ensure transparency and engagement towards global partnership, wewould like to provide further context regarding the timeline of work and efforts tocollaborate on the research presented in the report below. On 4 March 2023 (dates in UTC), we discovered accessions posted publicly on the GISAIDdatabase corresponding to […]

Mar 22, 2023

Weekly Update by Dr. Lawler

UNMC GCHS Weekly Update

Mar 22, 2023

Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan Seafood Market

Preprint AbstractEmerging in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) eventually became a pandemic and has posed a tremendous threat to global public health. However, the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, remain to be determined. It has reported that a certain number of the early case clusters had a contact history with Huanan […]

Mar 22, 2023

Wuhan Market Samples Contained Covid and Animal Mixtures, Report Says

New York Times In a much-anticipated study, experts described a swab that was positive for the coronavirus and contained loads of genetic material from raccoon dogs. On Jan. 12, 2020, Chinese investigators combing a market for clues about the outbreak of a mysterious new illness in the city of Wuhan swabbed a cart. It was […]

Mar 21, 2023

Foxes in Germany test positive for H5N1 bird flu

BNO news Four foxes in Germany have tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, local officials say, just weeks after red foxes in France succumbed to the same illness, which is affecting a growing number of mammals. The four foxes all died in Lower Saxony, a state in northwest Germany. Two were found dead in the […]

Mar 21, 2023

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