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Virus variants are expected, but surveillance should continue to monitor possible changes in clinical patterns, experts say
In the Americas, a network of laboratories from 22 countries contributes to the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants. So far, 37 countries and territories have confirmed the presence of one or more of the four variants of concern. Monitoring them is key to detecting any unusual or unexpected changes that could affect control measures including vaccines.
Washington, D.C. - Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 are to be expected, but genomic surveillance in the Americas should continue to detect any unusual or unexpected increase in cases, increase in lethality or change in clinical patterns that could affect control measures including vaccines, a group of experts said.
HSU professors Jayne McGuire (left) and Jasper Oshun.
Professors Jayne McGuire and Jasper Oshun have each been named Fulbright Scholars. The pair of Humboldt State faculty will receive grant awards to conduct international research in their fields in 2022.
The prestigious Fulbright Scholar Program was established in 1946. Among the winners are 60 Nobel Prize Laureates and 88 Pulitzer Prize winners. Since the first HSU professor was awarded a Fulbright in 1959, HSU faculty have won nearly 80 Fulbright Scholars awards.
McGuire, a professor of Recreation Administration, won her first Fulbright in 2017. With the funding, she traveled to the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago to study perceptions of disability and models of inclusivity in sports, recreation, and education. In 2022, she will return to the Caribbean to expand on her research with a comparative analysis of the facilitators and barriers of Special Olympics coaches in Jamaica.
The Trinidad Expressreports that Trinidad-born scientist Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted was awarded the World Food Prize 2021 on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
The announcement was made by US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken and Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture.
The World Food Prize is the most prominent global award recognizing an individual who has enhanced human development and confronted global hunger through improving the quality, quantity or availability of food for all.
Thilsted, who was born in Reform Village, attended Naparima Girls’ High School before going on to earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Tropical Agriculture in 1971, from the University of West Indies, St Augustine. After graduating, she worked as the first female agricultural officer at the Ministry of Agriculture in Tobago. While in Tobago she met her husband Finn Thilsted, a Danish citizen, and would migrate to Denmark with him. In 1980 she received her Ph.D. in Physiology of Nutri
Trinidad-born scientist Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted who was awarded the 2021 World Food Prize.
The Prime Minister has paid tribute to Trinidad-born scientist Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted,who was awarded the World Food Prize 2021 on Tuesday.
The award announcement was made by US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken and Thomas J Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture.
In a post on Wednesday on his Facebook page, DrRowley said the World Food Prize is the most prominent global award recognising an individual who has enhanced human development and confronted global hunger through improving the quality, quantity or availability of food for all.
Thilsted, who was born in Reform Village, attended Naparima Girls’ High School before earning a BSc in tropical agriculture in 1971, from the University of West Indies, St Augustine campus.