Vaccines, tests, and antivirals are still effective tools in the latest COVID surge. In early November 2023, the JN.1 variant caused less than 5% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. Now it is estimated to cause more than 60% of them. Virologists including Andy Pekosz, PhD, a professor in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, are paying attention. Here, Pekosz […]
January 26, 2021 ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) announced today that an Anchorage resident who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection last month was infected with a variant strain of the virus known as B.1.1.7, which was originally detected in September in the United Kingdom. This is the first identification […]
One-hundred-two years ago, a strain of influenza virus spread across the globe, eventually reaching Brevig Mission in Alaska. Five days after the flu hit the Seward Peninsula, 72 of the 80 villagers in Brevig Mission were dead. Through a series of events suited to a detective novel, researchers made a connection between Brevig Mission […]
A Sunday afternoon two-vehicle collision at mile 71.5 of the Seward Highway resulted in the death of an elderly woman, the troopers reported via the Trooper dispatch early Monday morning. According to the report, the trooper investigation that unfolded after they responded to the crash at 1:17 pm on Sunday found that 65-year-old Anchorage man, […]