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UMKC student tests positive for coronavirus

UMKC student tests positive for coronavirus

Lucas Cuni-Mertz
March 25, 2020

A UMKC student has tested positive for COVID-19, Chancellor Agrawal announced.  The student, who does not live on campus, is being treated in isolation.  Agrawal said the university is working closely with public health officials, who will reach out to those...

Stay-at-home order issued for Kansas City metro

Stay-at-home order issued for Kansas City metro

Lucas Cuni-Mertz
March 22, 2020

In an increased effort to limit the spread of COVID-19, Mayor Quinton Lucas has issued a “Stay at Home” order for residents of Kansas City and Johnson, Jackson and Wyandotte counties beginning Tuesday, March 24 at 12:01 a.m. Residents are required to stay home except...

UMKC moving classes online due to coronavirus pandemic

UMKC moving classes online due to coronavirus pandemic

Lucas Cuni-Mertz
March 13, 2020

UMKC has suspended in-person classes and will move to online-only instruction starting next week due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The decision comes after three new cases of coronavirus were announced in neighboring Johnson County, Kansas. There are still no known cases...

UMKC professor discovers new strain of HIV

UMKC professor discovers new strain of HIV

Lucas Cuni-Mertz
November 18, 2019

A UMKC professor helped discover the first new subtype of HIV in nearly 20 years.  The strain, called HIV-1 Group M, Subtype L, comes from the same virus family that caused the HIV pandemic in 1981, which has killed 32 million people to date.  "In an increasingly...

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