{"id":9639,"date":"2025-06-04T11:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:40:22","slug":"heres-what-to-know-about-nb-1-8-1-the-covid-variant-surging-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/04\/heres-what-to-know-about-nb-1-8-1-the-covid-variant-surging-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What to Know About NB.1.8.1, the COVID Variant Surging in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19\/115806\">MedPageToday<\/a> It will probably become dominant in the U.S. this summer, experts say. A new COVID variant driving a surge of infections in China and other parts of Asia has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-reports-cases-new-covid-variant-nb-1-8-1-behind-surge-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"detected by U.S. airport screening programsopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detected by U.S. airport screening programsopens in a new tab or window<\/a>, and experts say it may drive a summer wave in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NB.1.8.1 was recently named a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/documents\/epp\/tracking-sars-cov-2\/23052025_nb.1.8.1_ire.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"variant under monitoringopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">variant under monitoringopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&#8221; by the World Health Organization, and as of mid-May it represented 10.7% of sequences globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While still low numbers, this is a significant rise in prevalence from 2.5% four weeks prior,&#8221; the WHO stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19\/115806\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday It will probably become dominant in the U.S. this summer, experts say. A new COVID variant driving a surge of infections in China and other parts of Asia has been&nbsp;detected by U.S. airport screening programsopens in a new tab or window, and experts say it may drive a summer wave in the U.S. NB.1.8.1 [&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-9639","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\/9639","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=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9640,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions\/9640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}