{"id":9708,"date":"2025-06-17T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:42:41","slug":"new-razor-blade-throat-covid-subvariant-quickly-gains-ground-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/17\/new-razor-blade-throat-covid-subvariant-quickly-gains-ground-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;razor blade throat&#8217; COVID subvariant quickly gains ground in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/razor-blade-throat-covid-subvariant-california-20381353.php\">SF Gate<\/a> A new\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/coronavirus\/\">COVID-19 variant<\/a>, nicknamed Nimbus, is rising around the world \u2014 including in California \u2014 and known for giving \u201crazor blade throat\u201d symptoms.\u00a0Officially called NB.1.8.1, the variant was labeled a \u201cvariant under monitoring\u201d by the World Health Organization on May 23, according to a recent\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/documents\/epp\/tracking-sars-cov-2\/23052025_nb.1.8.1_ire.pdf\">report<\/a>. That means it\u2019s not currently a major threat; however, it\u2019s spreading fast enough to raise flags. As of late April, it made up 10.7% of global COVID-19 samples, a jump from 2.5% just a month earlier. Officially called NB.1.8.1, the variant was labeled a \u201cvariant under monitoring\u201d by the World Health Organization on May 23, according to a recent\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/documents\/epp\/tracking-sars-cov-2\/23052025_nb.1.8.1_ire.pdf\">report<\/a>. That means it\u2019s not currently a major threat; however, it\u2019s spreading fast enough to raise flags. As of late April, it made up 10.7% of global COVID-19 samples, a jump from 2.5% just a month earlier.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"uWkANSayrWxk f\">uWkANSayrWxk f<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Gate A new\u00a0COVID-19 variant, nicknamed Nimbus, is rising around the world \u2014 including in California \u2014 and known for giving \u201crazor blade throat\u201d symptoms.\u00a0Officially called NB.1.8.1, the variant was labeled a \u201cvariant under monitoring\u201d by the World Health Organization on May 23, according to a recent\u00a0report. That means it\u2019s not currently a major threat; [&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-9708","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\/9708","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=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9709,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}