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‘Silly and pompous’: Official new names for viruses rile up researchers
The U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which manages repositories of virus sequences and other data, announced on Wednesday it would be adding about 3000 new, Latinized names to its databases in spring 2025. Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, tells Science the names are “silly and pompous.”
Source: Science
13 Dec 2024
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New dengue virus naming system will help identify and track variants
Yale researchers and scientists in 14 other countries have established a new system of dengue lineages which, they say, will allow better tracking and improve vaccine development. They recently described the new system in a study published in the journal PLOS Biology.
Source: Yale News
27 Sep 2024
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Presence of rare eastern equine encephalitis virus has Northeast towns on high alert
Officials in Massachusetts and surrounding states are on high alert after recent tests detected a reemergence of the rare but deadly eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus in the region. Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Nathan Grubaugh, an infectious disease epidemiologist, said there were early signs that 2024 could potentially be a bad year for EEE.
28 Aug 2024
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Fauci illness highlights threat of West Nile Virus
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent diagnosis with a case of West Nile virus has brought renewed attention to the little-known illness that is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States. Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Nathan Grubaugh, an infectious disease epidemiologist, said the number of cases of West Nile virus nationally has stayed relatively stable over the past decade with about 1,000 to 3,000 cases per year.
28 Aug 2024
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International scientists propose additions to dengue virus classification system
An international group of experts led by the Yale School of Public Health has proposed adding two sub-classifications to the current dengue virus nomenclature to help identify and track strains of potential epidemiologic or clinical importance.
Source: CIDRAP
23 May 2024
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Mosquito season is upon us. So why are Southern California officials releasing more of them?
Mosquito control agencies in Southern California are desperate to tamp down an invasive mosquito — called Aedes aegypti — that has exploded in recent years. YSPH Associate Professor Nathan Grubaugh provides insight.
Source: Los Angeles Times
25 Apr 2024
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Yale Research Team Awarded $4 Million Grant to Evaluate New Immunizations for Infant RSV
A multidisciplinary team of Yale scientists has received a $4-million federal grant to study the effectiveness of a new vaccine and monoclonal antibody shot designed to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants.
1 Apr 2024
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EG.5.1? BA.2.86? Keeping Up With the New COVID-19 Subvariants
Two emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 have made the headlines recently. A Yale expert on these variants says one may already be running its course, while the other poses some potential risk.
1 Sep 2023
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YSPH research team develops sequencing method for human mpox virus
The YSPH team and their colleagues began adapting SARS-CoV-2 sequencing for use with the human mpox virus following the detection of mpox cases in non-endemic countries in late May 2022.
6 Jul 2023
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Health Experts Warily Eye XBB.1.5, the Latest Omicron Subvariant
A young version of the coronavirus makes up one-quarter of Covid cases across the United States and over 70 percent of new cases in the Northeast.
Source: The New York Times
6 Jan 2023
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Administration’s new Covid-19 vaccine ads target ‘high-risk’ communities
New ads promoting the Covid-19 vaccines are making their debut this week, targeting specific communities that have had a slow uptake of the updated shots. Black audiences are encouraged to get vaccinated in the “On Point” video, released by the US Department of Health and Human Services on Monday.
Source: CNN
25 Oct 2022
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Quick and stealthy ‘Scrabble variants’ are poised to drive a winter Covid-19 surge
A flurry of new Covid-19 variants appears to be gaining traction globally, raising fears of a winter surge.
Source: CNN
20 Oct 2022
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Calm before the storm? CT's COVID numbers have improved, but a winter spike could be coming
Connecticut's long-expected fall COVID-19 surge has not yet materialized, state numbers show, but experts nonetheless say they are braced for a spike in the coming months.
Source: CT Insider
19 Oct 2022
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Yale School of Public Health joins CDC-funded Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has selected the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and six other partners to make up its new Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence, one of five such centers recently launched by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With $25 million in funding over five years, the center’s goal will be to improve technologies and coordinated processes for systematically monitoring infectious diseases and emerging variants, enabling the U.S. to better prevent and respond to outbreaks.
17 Oct 2022
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Three Early-career Scientists Recognized as ‘Innovators’
The New Innovator Award is part of the NIH Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, supported by the Common Fund. Awards are for researchers who are within 10 years of their final degree or clinical residency and have not yet received an NIH R01 or equivalent grant.
Source: YaleNews
7 Oct 2022
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Nathan Grubaugh honored with prestigious NIH New Innovator award
Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Nathan Grubaugh has received a prestigious New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health in recognition of his potentially transformative biomedical research as a young career investigator.
5 Oct 2022
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Rising Covid-19 cases in the UK may be a warning for the U.S.
There are signs that the United Kingdom could be heading into a fall Covid-19 wave, and experts say the United States may not be far behind.
Source: CNN
27 Sep 2022
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The Omicron Booster: Your Questions Answered
Yale Medicine experts discuss what we know—and don't know—about the new COVID-19 booster shots.
Source: Yale Medicine
15 Sep 2022
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‘None of us has a crystal ball’: Scientists try to keep up with faster coronavirus evolution.
The rapid evolution of the coronavirus into an alphabet soup of subvariants presents a vexing challenge to health officials: They must make far-reaching policy decisions based on little biological certainty of which viral variants will be dominant this fall or winter.
Source: The New York Times
20 Jul 2022
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Are Chronic Infections Responsible For SARS-CoV-2 Variants?
In the spring of 2022, a group of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health happened upon a mystery: their genomic surveillance dataset was picking up a SARS-CoV-2 lineage, B.1.517, thought to have gone extinct in the United States and globally as far back as April of 2021. How had this supposedly dead strain made its way into their database?
Source: Forbes
14 Jul 2022