The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) today announced the new variant strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus first detected in the United Kingdom was identified by genomic sequencing in positive specimens from five residents of four different counties in the Twin Cities metro area. Four of the cases were identified through the MDH Public Health Laboratory, […]
Minnesota State Fair Called Off for First Time Since World War II
The Great Minnesota Get Together is going to have to wait for the fall of the “great pandemic” of our time. The Minnesota State Fair has been canceled for 2020 – it’s the first time in 75 years the show will not go on. The State Fair’s board met Friday to discuss the future for […]
Ebola Fears: MDH Officials State Virus is Concern, Not Threat
The Minnesota Department of Health took to media outlets Thursday with a simple message: Ebola virus in the United States is cause for a concern, but not for mass hysteria. Due to its limited degree of transferability, Ebola shouldn’t be cause for panic, particularly hundreds of miles away from its source here in the United State […]
Buffalo Hospital Nurse Was on Ebola Frontline
A well-known nurse to mothers at Buffalo Hospital was on the front lines in the fight against Ebola just months ago, after a charity she’s heavily invested in had her deep in the ravaged country of Liberia last spring. Though the outbreak was nowhere near the status it is now, nurse Amanda Duerr, who now […]