Dr. Anna Fagre, a researcher at CSU s Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, said detection of nucleic acid in bats in the wild indicates that they are naturally infected or exposed through the bite of infected mosquitoes.
Right now we're stuck with jumbles of letters and numbers, or country names that stigmatize people from that region. Experts announced a new plan to fix that.
Bob Saar
for The Hawk Eye
Chaired by Jim Cary while chairman Tom Broeker is away on family business, the Des Moines County supervisors Cary and the recently seated Shane McCampbell listened to department heads Tuesday as they decried the downpour predicted for the rest of the week. We re tired of rain. In July and August you ll hear me say the exact opposite, DMC Engineer Brian Carter said. He said bridge and road projects aren t moving at the moment. We re treading water.
Conservation director Chris Lee joined in, saying, Remember a few weeks ago when we complained about the dust?
How virus variants get their confusing names and how to make them better
Right now we re stuck with jumbles of letters and numbers, or country names that stigmatize people from that region. Experts have a plan to fix that.
ByAmy McKeever
Email
Coronavirus variant names are strange and complicated. Sure, B.1.1.7 or P.1 might be perfectly fine names when virologists and microbiologists need to keep track of them but they’re not so useful for the public trying to make sense of the variants driving new COVID-19 surges.
Take it from Salim Abdool Karim, an epidemiologist and former chair of South Africa’s COVID-19 advisory committee. He helped name the variant that was first discovered in the country: 501Y.V2, which, confusingly, is also known as B.1.351 and 20H/501Y.V2.
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