{"id":9726,"date":"2025-06-17T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9726"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:50:49","slug":"eight-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-nimbus-and-stratus-covid-19-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/17\/eight-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-nimbus-and-stratus-covid-19-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight things you need to know about the new \u201cNimbus\u201d and \u201cStratus\u201d COVID-19 variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/vaccineswork\/eight-things-you-need-know-about-new-nimbus-and-stratus-covid-variants\">Gavi<\/a> The NB.1.8.1 and XFG sub-variants are rapidly spreading and competing for global dominance. COVID-19 may have faded from news headlines, but it hasn\u2019t gone away \u2013 or stopped evolving. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently lists six&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.who.int\/dashboards\/covid19\/variants?n=o\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\u2018variants under monitoring\u2019, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018variants under monitoring\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; meaning they may require prioritised attention and tracking by health authorities due to their increased prevalence and potential public health implications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of them is NB.1.8.1, unofficially nicknamed \u201cNimbus\u201d by the group of researchers and citizen scientists who\u2019ve&nbsp;proposed previous monikers like Kraken, Centaurus and Eris for variants they thought people would be talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another variant raising concern among virus spotters \u2013 though not currently designated for monitoring by the WHO &#8212; is XFG, informally nicknamed \u201cStratus\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/vaccineswork\/eight-things-you-need-know-about-new-nimbus-and-stratus-covid-variants\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavi The NB.1.8.1 and XFG sub-variants are rapidly spreading and competing for global dominance. COVID-19 may have faded from news headlines, but it hasn\u2019t gone away \u2013 or stopped evolving. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently lists six&nbsp;\u2018variants under monitoring\u2019&nbsp;&#8212; meaning they may require prioritised attention and tracking by health authorities due to their increased [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/9726","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=9726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9727,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726\/revisions\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}