{"id":9560,"date":"2025-05-28T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:22:21","slug":"a-new-covid-variant-is-rising-fast-heres-what-we-know-about-nb-1-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/28\/a-new-covid-variant-is-rising-fast-heres-what-we-know-about-nb-1-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Covid Variant Is Rising Fast. Here\u2019s What We Know About NB.1.8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-new-covid-variant-is-rising-fast-heres-what-we-know-about-nb-1-8-1-2000608215\">Gizmodo<\/a> A new Omicron offshoot is spreading fast across Australia and Asia, prompting renewed concerns about the covid-19 pandemic. As we enter the colder months in Australia, covid is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/public-health\/covid-19-new-subvariant-nb181-driving-increase-in-infections-in-wa-c-18801659\">making headlines<\/a>&nbsp;again, this time due to the emergence of a new variant: NB.1.8.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/documents\/epp\/tracking-sars-cov-2\/23052025_nb.1.8.1_ire.pdf\">World Health Organization<\/a>\u00a0designated NB.1.8.1 as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/activities\/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants\">variant under monitoring<\/a>\u201d, owing to its growing global spread and some notable characteristics which could set it apart from earlier variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-new-covid-variant-is-rising-fast-heres-what-we-know-about-nb-1-8-1-2000608215\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"aG Tiellz DFPv agTScgcOg b G o\">aG Tiellz DFPv agTScgcOg b G o<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo A new Omicron offshoot is spreading fast across Australia and Asia, prompting renewed concerns about the covid-19 pandemic. As we enter the colder months in Australia, covid is&nbsp;making headlines&nbsp;again, this time due to the emergence of a new variant: NB.1.8.1. Last week, the\u00a0World Health Organization\u00a0designated NB.1.8.1 as a \u201cvariant under monitoring\u201d, owing to its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","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=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9561,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions\/9561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}