Leah Feiger
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1,642 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Leah Feiger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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this rodent transmission, there wasn't really a test yet to be able to figure out the earliest stages of infection, like what this actually meant for people coming back, which is very difficult if you have all of these passengers returning and you can't tell them for certain if they have it.
But in just a couple of days, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which is where in Nebraska people were getting received, a lab developed its own diagnostic test for the Andes virus ahead of receiving all of these passengers.
really, really cool.
Peter Iwen, the director of the Nebraska Public Health Lab, told Emily that they think that they're actually the only lab in the nation that has this test available at the moment.
The fact that they spun it together so quickly is really just absolutely incredible.
And specifically that it's able to detect very, very small quantities of the virus before people have full-blown symptoms.
And that's been part of the issue so far is that like all of a sudden people were just like,
It was done.
It was just so much all at once.
And like to be able to isolate and figure out what that looks like and then also talk treatment afterwards.
Huge.
Absolutely huge.
And prevent the spread, of course.
That gets me to a six, even a 6.5.
Yep, absolutely.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Well, somewhere in that range.
We're going to take a quick break.
And when we're back, it's time for our Wired and Tired segment.
Stay with us.
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