Greg Ebel and Dr. Nicole Ehrhart devised a novel plan to test workers at nursing homes in Colorado weekly in order to gain insight into the virus’ spread.
Over the last two months, Greg Ebel’s lab tested 462 Colorado nursing home workers to gauge whether workers were silently carrying the virus.
The Ebel lab tests local asymptomatic healthcare workers for COVID-19, similar in principle to the tests his team has used for West Nile virus surveillance in northern Colorado since 2014.
Featuring Ph.D. candidate Bekah McMinn and xenosurveillance research in Guatemala, CSU researchers are working to create global disease surveillance methods that allow us to keep a watchful eye out for diseases harmful to humans.
Ebel Lab alumni Claudia Rückert was featured on a recent”This Week in Virology” podcast, where University of Reno virologists discuss their work on herpesviruses, arboviruses, and the development of diagnostics for infectious diseases.
Heartworm is becoming more common as the weather warms, causing larger mosquito populations and longer mosquito season across the United States.
West Nile virus researcher Greg Ebel comments on recent studies that show people who have had West Nile virus may have long-term symptoms.
Joseph Fauver of the Ebel Lab co-authored a study investigating how Zika virus entered the USA, by sequencing the virus’s genome at different points during the outbreak.
A new study published in the Nature Communications journal reports that mosquitoes might be even more adept at spreading disease than previously thought.