The custom-built, high-intensity flow-through photochemical reactor is being integrated into the university’s wider coronavirus and other research efforts, as it can be used to inactivate many types of viruses and pathogens.
The Colorado State University Employee Appreciation Board recently honored the SARS-CoV-2 team in the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for going above and beyond its normal duties.
Transfort, the transit agency owned by the City of Fort Collins, has announced it is lifting its mask requirement for passengers effective immediately. This change affects all Transfort routes, including MAX and FLEX, as well as Transfort bus stops and transit centers.
“The anti-vaccination movement was a cause for concern before Covid,” said Lori Kogan, one of the study’s authors and a professor at Colorado State University who studies human-animal interactions. “It’s certainly a cause for concern now.” Kogan is also conducting a follow-up study exploring pet vaccine hesitancy in the wake of Covid-19, with data due within the next few months.
While the campus and state wastewater testing programs have functioned well as part of the overall pandemic response, Susan De Long and her collaborators want to streamline the process so it can be applied more broadly.
“SARS-CoV-2, in the realm of coronaviruses, has a very broad species range,” said Laura Bashor.
Humans are the presumptive spreaders of infection among deer, says Angela Bosco-Lauth, PhD, DVM, assistant professor of biomedical sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Samples from a variety of animals at the zoo, including the spotted hyenas, were tested after several lions at the facility became ill, according to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories. The hyena samples tested presumptive positive at a lab at Colorado State University, and the cases were confirmed by the national lab.
The samples were tested by the Colorado State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. The hyenas are the latest in a number of infections confirmed among animals at the Denver Zoo.
The CSU team analyzed mutation types occurring in SARS-CoV-2 after cross-species infection.