Holly Morgan hmorgan3@uwyo.edu With the Zika virus being declared a global public health emergency, the UW international program’s office has notified UW students studying abroad in “at risk” areas of the potential hazards. “The international programs office has contacted all students currently studying abroad in these regions, as well as those considering travel in the…
Paige Backman pbackman@uwyo.edu Central Wyoming College Equine lifted a quarantine of two of its horses after treating them for Vesticular Stomatitis Virus (VSV), which is a concerning virus to UW equine owners. Symptoms of the virus include sores around the horse’s mouth and hairline of the hooves, abnormal slobbering, fever and unwillingness to move….
Jeremy Rowley Jrowley1@uwyo.edu Numerous university email accounts have been exposed to an email containing an attachment with the ability to steal information off of computers. “This is a particularly bad one, as you might expect,” Vice President of Information Technology on campus Robert Aylward said. “It essentially attempts to steal confidential data on your machine….
Laramie’s mosquito control crew started spraying in parks and other public places, or fogging, last week to combat the increasing numbers of mosquitos. Some species of mosquitos can carry—and transmit to humans—West Nile Virus (WNV), an arthropod-borne virus that can give humans the lethal disease; however, the threat of a WNV outbreak in Laramie is…
Boo! Did I scare you? Probably not. Ebola! Did I scare you? Maybe that did the trick. With Halloween approaching, it seems that Ebola has more people shaking in their boots than the scariest time of year. I agree; it can be scary. A fever can turn into bleeding internally and externally until a miraculous…
As of this week 40 states across the U.S. have reported cases of Enterovirus 68 (EV-D68), including Wyoming with two cases. One of the cases occurred in Campbell County and the other in Park County. While more cases are expected to pop up in the coming days, many Wyoming hospitals are already on the watch…
