The latest viral variant thought to cause pink eye has been spreading in the state of Florida.
Florida state health officials have yet to resume weekly reporting of case and death data to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A report on Saturday shows that Arcturus is slowly spreading in Florida
A dozen cases of arcturus, a coronavirus strain that appears to be linked to pink eye infections, have been found in Florida so far.
Online “variant hunters” named it after the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere, according to the Daily Mail.
The word means “Guardian of the Bear.”
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