CSU awarded $6.7 million NIH award for research facility focused on bat health, disease transmission
Bats can harbor coronaviruses, so studying bats and pathogens is critical to global public health.
Tag: "COVID-19 Research"
The Colorado Sun: Why coronavirus vaccine booster shots may help you, and why they may not help society
Because delta’s superpower is how fast it moves. So your immune system might need the espresso-jolt of a booster shot to catch up. Gregg Dean is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Colorado State University. (He’s also developing two coronavirus vaccines.)
Coloradoan: CSU receives $2 million gift to continue research on preventing future pandemics
Colorado State University received a $2 million grant to continue its interdisciplinary research in preventing future pandemics and improving pandemic responses.
McKnight's: Online tool helps take guesswork out of COVID-19 testing in long-term care facilities
Long-term care operators can compute the risk for COVID-19 infections in their facility with a new online simulation tool. They simply plug a proposed testing schedule and other facility information into the simulator and receive information to make the most informed decisions. “Being able to build all of those things into the model simultaneously is extremely powerful,” said Nicole Ehrhart, V.M.D., a professor and director of Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging at CSU.
Study: Mask wearing, hand washing protected CSU essential workers early in pandemic
A study involving more than 500 essential workers at CSU early in the pandemic correlated very low infection rates with very high rates of public health-protective behaviors.
CSU receives $2 million grant to help prevent future pandemics
Building on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Colorado State University has received a $2 million commitment from The Anschutz Foundation to further the development of new solutions for building resilience and agility in stopping infectious disease transmission among animals and people.
New York Times: Cats Are Better Than Dogs (at Catching the Coronavirus)
Fortunately, infected cats appear to show mild symptoms at most. “I am still a bit surprised that cats are so readily infected and yet rarely exhibit any signs of illness,” said Dr. Angela Bosco-Lauth, a biomedical researcher at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences who was not involved with the research.
99.9 The Point: CSU Testing Ugandan Bats to Study COVID-19 Transmission
Rebekah Kading, a virologist at Colorado State University, and her team are studying bats in eastern Uganda to determine how diseases spread between the animals and humans.
Wired: The threat nobody is talking about? Covid spillback
As a veterinary microbiologist at Colorado State University, Anna Fagre is used to studying viruses in animals. But over the last six months, Fagre and scientists like her have been consumed by the opposite problem: stopping humans from passing a deadly virus on to animals.
Living with Bats: International team studies bat ecology and epidemiology in Uganda
Bats and humans depend on the caves that pockmark the Mount Elgon caldera in eastern Uganda, making it the perfect field site to study human-bat interactions and emerging viral pathogens.