Coronavirus News and Updates Archives

Jan 30, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU update on emerging respiratory illness 2019-nCov

East Carolina University is closely monitoring the outbreak of respiratory illness caused by coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China, originating in Wuhan. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has...

Jan 24, 2020
  • ECU News Services

4 Things to Know About Coronavirus According to ECU Expert

Dr. Rachel Roper, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at East Carolina University, was part of the team that first isolated, sequenced and analyzed the genome for SARS (Severe Acute...