A case of polio in New York City, and the discovery of the virus in wastewater there, have prompted Southern Nevada to prepare to look for the virus in the community’s wastewater.
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The coronavirus variant’s mutations pose great concern, but their impact on the severity of disease is not yet known.
Nevada is fighting coronavirus variants through genetic sequencing, using the data for contact tracing to slow their spread and, soon, to aid the development of new vaccines.
The first pieces of the state’s plan to vastly expand testing for the disease caused by the new coronavirus are expected as soon as Friday.
Southern Nevada, Southern California and central Arizona are the nation’s “hot zone” for West Nile virus, reporting the highest number of cases of the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease in the U.S.
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