{"id":3427,"date":"2023-05-02T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2023-05-02T08:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:11:49","slug":"what-to-know-about-arcturus-new-covid-variant-causing-pink-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/02\/what-to-know-about-arcturus-new-covid-variant-causing-pink-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About \u2018Arcturus\u2019: New Covid Variant Causing Pink Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ariannajohnson\/2023\/04\/27\/what-to-know-about-arcturus-new-covid-variant-causing-pink-eye\/?sh=6024d1871553\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Covid strain XBB.1.18, nicknamed arcturus, is quickly spreading across the U.S., but experts are warning that pink eye and high fever, two symptoms of the new variant, are particularly present among children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arcturus is a subvariant of the highly contagious omicron variant, which is the most prevalent variant in the U.S.,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has seen an\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">uptick<\/a>\u00a0in this variant among travelers\u2014the week of March 6, it made up 1.1% of cases among travelers, and by the week of April 3, it made up 19.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of the week of April 22, the CDC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;arcturus makes up 9.6% of all U.S. cases, the second most prevalent subvariant behind XBB.1.5., which makes up 73.6% of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization is tracking arcturus and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/21042023xbb.1.16ra-v2.pdf?sfvrsn=84577350_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labeled<\/a>&nbsp;it a \u201cvariant of interest\u201d alongside XBB.1.5. on April 17, a step below a variant of concern\u2014WHO previously labeled it a \u201cvariant under monitoring\u201d in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHO also reports the subvariant has been detected in 33 countries, including the U.S., Australia, Singapore, Libya, Iran, Kuwait and Qatar, but it\u2019s the most prevalent in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ariannajohnson\/2023\/04\/27\/what-to-know-about-arcturus-new-covid-variant-causing-pink-eye\/?sh=6024d1871553\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"M rK drk nM  Te\">M rK drk nM  Te<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes New Covid strain XBB.1.18, nicknamed arcturus, is quickly spreading across the U.S., but experts are warning that pink eye and high fever, two symptoms of the new variant, are particularly present among children. Arcturus is a subvariant of the highly contagious omicron variant, which is the most prevalent variant in the U.S.,&nbsp;according&nbsp;to the Centers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clinical-considerations","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-02-at-09.09.58.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}