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CEID improves resilience against epidemics globally.
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CEID improves resilience against epidemics globally.
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Calling all BU students pursuing research on infectious diseases, pandemic preparedness, or global health security! We're giving out two $5k grants for summer research projects related to CEID's mission. Apply by March 15th: www.bu.edu/ceid/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Calling all BU students pursuing research on infectious diseases, pandemic preparedness, or global health security! We're giving out two $5k grants for summer research projects related to CEID's mission. Apply by March 15th: www.bu.edu/ceid/2026/02...
Outside systems, such as CEID's @beaconbio.bsky.social program as well as regional consortiums between state public health departments are working to fill this void of information.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Outside systems, such as CEID's @beaconbio.bsky.social program as well as regional consortiums between state public health departments are working to fill this void of information.
The drop in the CDC's health alerts last year is concerning, @bhadeliamd.bsky.social tells @npr.org, because this type of reporting allows hospitals to be better prepared with the right types of medications & supplies, and adequate staffing.
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A drop in CDC health alerts leaves doctors 'flying blind'
Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The drop in the CDC's health alerts last year is concerning, @bhadeliamd.bsky.social tells @npr.org, because this type of reporting allows hospitals to be better prepared with the right types of medications & supplies, and adequate staffing.
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The Milano Cortina Olympics officially start today! While the Olympics are a time for celebration, as with all large-scale gatherings, the risk of communicable disease grows. This is why we're expanding our coverage of mass global events, starting with the these games.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The Milano Cortina Olympics officially start today! While the Olympics are a time for celebration, as with all large-scale gatherings, the risk of communicable disease grows. This is why we're expanding our coverage of mass global events, starting with the these games.
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Hotter weather & longer summers mean longer periods of risk from Lyme disease-carrying ticks each year. These shifting conditions have enabled deer ticks to move into new areas, including cities explains CEID faculty Dr. Cassandra Pierre. @bumedicine.bsky.social
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Experts issue warning as pervasive disease becomes subject of medical controversy: 'They get really rich off of exploiting vulnerable people'
Celebrities have a massive impact on social media. Even well-meaning posts about Lyme disease can be seriously misleading.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hotter weather & longer summers mean longer periods of risk from Lyme disease-carrying ticks each year. These shifting conditions have enabled deer ticks to move into new areas, including cities explains CEID faculty Dr. Cassandra Pierre. @bumedicine.bsky.social
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Two COVID-19 cases detected among Australian Winter Olympics support staff in Italy, with containment measures implemented ahead of Milano Cortina 2026
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=b82ef2fe-8c8f-473c-9b3d-1892130a2047&eventid=095c55cd-6493-42fc-9d67-534e296295e1&utm_source=bluesky
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=b82ef2fe-8c8f-473c-9b3d-1892130a2047&eventid=095c55cd-6493-42fc-9d67-534e296295e1&utm_source=bluesky
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Two COVID-19 cases detected among Australian Winter Olympics support staff in Italy, with containment measures implemented ahead of Milano Cortina 2026
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=b82ef2fe-8c8f-473c-9b3d-1892130a2047&eventid=095c55cd-6493-42fc-9d67-534e296295e1&utm_source=bluesky
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=b82ef2fe-8c8f-473c-9b3d-1892130a2047&eventid=095c55cd-6493-42fc-9d67-534e296295e1&utm_source=bluesky
Building on commitments to maintain public health infrastructure and channels of information, including collaborating with CEID to use information from @beaconbio.bsky.social, @idph.bsky.social announces joining @who.int's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
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Illinois Joins the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
CHICAGO - Today, Governor Pritzker announced the State of Illinois is joining the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), a coordinated international network dedicated to monitoring and responding to global disease outbreaks.
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February 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Building on commitments to maintain public health infrastructure and channels of information, including collaborating with CEID to use information from @beaconbio.bsky.social, @idph.bsky.social announces joining @who.int's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
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Acute gastrointestinal illness suspected to be norovirus among Finland’s Olympic women’s ice hockey players in Milan
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=7ac4422d-7683-4669-86b6-094f4f6297c8&eventid=f9f68f67-bc0a-4ed9-ad5c-69358b96cb5c&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=7ac4422d-7683-4669-86b6-094f4f6297c8&eventid=f9f68f67-bc0a-4ed9-ad5c-69358b96cb5c&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
February 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Acute gastrointestinal illness suspected to be norovirus among Finland’s Olympic women’s ice hockey players in Milan
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=7ac4422d-7683-4669-86b6-094f4f6297c8&eventid=f9f68f67-bc0a-4ed9-ad5c-69358b96cb5c&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=7ac4422d-7683-4669-86b6-094f4f6297c8&eventid=f9f68f67-bc0a-4ed9-ad5c-69358b96cb5c&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
The Milan Winter Olympics officially kick off tomorrow, bringing together ~3k athletes from 90 countries, plus ~1M spectators & 1000s of staff & media. At the link below, we provide historic data on disease spread at Olympic games and continue monitoring this years games for related outbreak events.
Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026: communicable disease context
Read more at: https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=89de237e-a7d0-4b48-8f20-6887b503176b&eventid=a34529a2-df42-4674-b9fb-ee93ba898f8c&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost
Read more at: https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=89de237e-a7d0-4b48-8f20-6887b503176b&eventid=a34529a2-df42-4674-b9fb-ee93ba898f8c&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost
February 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The Milan Winter Olympics officially kick off tomorrow, bringing together ~3k athletes from 90 countries, plus ~1M spectators & 1000s of staff & media. At the link below, we provide historic data on disease spread at Olympic games and continue monitoring this years games for related outbreak events.
Great conversation between CEID faculty @josephharrisbu.bsky.social & NYT Best-Selling author @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, discussing what efforts are needed to eradicate tuberculosis, and how close are we to realistically achieving that goal.
Fan of #FaultInOurStars & @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social? Check out our conversation with him on @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social. He talks about his new @penguinbox1.bsky.social book Everything is #Tuberculosis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... @unaids.org @stoptb.bsky.social @stoptbusa.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Great conversation between CEID faculty @josephharrisbu.bsky.social & NYT Best-Selling author @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, discussing what efforts are needed to eradicate tuberculosis, and how close are we to realistically achieving that goal.
TB often occurs alongside other existing conditions, worsening disease severity & compromising treatment outcomes. Dr. Pranay Sinha (@bumedicine.bsky.social) proposes a phased framework for multimorbidity-centered TB care, including coordination with existing health services.
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Reframing TB Care: A Perspective on Multimorbidity-Centered Care for People with TB | MDPI
Tuberculosis (TB) rarely occurs in isolation; most people with TB experience multiple coexisting conditions, including HIV, diabetes, undernutrition, depression, and substance use disorders, which worsen disease severity and compromise treatment outcomes.
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February 2, 2026 at 5:28 PM
TB often occurs alongside other existing conditions, worsening disease severity & compromising treatment outcomes. Dr. Pranay Sinha (@bumedicine.bsky.social) proposes a phased framework for multimorbidity-centered TB care, including coordination with existing health services.
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San Francisco Department of Public Health issues health advisory on high school tuberculosis outbreak involving three active and 50 latent cases
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=4c4db8a2-7d96-495f-96f2-d062d3ecfddd&eventid=54058967-1ee5-4e9d-82bc-054fa8beac62&utm_source=bluesky
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=4c4db8a2-7d96-495f-96f2-d062d3ecfddd&eventid=54058967-1ee5-4e9d-82bc-054fa8beac62&utm_source=bluesky
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 AM
San Francisco Department of Public Health issues health advisory on high school tuberculosis outbreak involving three active and 50 latent cases
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=4c4db8a2-7d96-495f-96f2-d062d3ecfddd&eventid=54058967-1ee5-4e9d-82bc-054fa8beac62&utm_source=bluesky
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=4c4db8a2-7d96-495f-96f2-d062d3ecfddd&eventid=54058967-1ee5-4e9d-82bc-054fa8beac62&utm_source=bluesky
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The WHO Regional Office for Europe reports that the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan lost their measles elimination status
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=65d8c4f1-e15b-4d3c-8681-f6d10b58c292&utm_source=bluesky
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=65d8c4f1-e15b-4d3c-8681-f6d10b58c292&utm_source=bluesky
January 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The WHO Regional Office for Europe reports that the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan lost their measles elimination status
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=65d8c4f1-e15b-4d3c-8681-f6d10b58c292&utm_source=bluesky
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=65d8c4f1-e15b-4d3c-8681-f6d10b58c292&utm_source=bluesky
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There is a lot about this in media (and some misinformation). See our analysis on #Nipahvirus cases in India:
"West Bengal, India; no onward transmission of Nipah virus disease reported; regional and global risk assessed as low"
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"West Bengal, India; no onward transmission of Nipah virus disease reported; regional and global risk assessed as low"
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January 29, 2026 at 10:13 PM
There is a lot about this in media (and some misinformation). See our analysis on #Nipahvirus cases in India:
"West Bengal, India; no onward transmission of Nipah virus disease reported; regional and global risk assessed as low"
via @beaconbio.bsky.social - beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...
"West Bengal, India; no onward transmission of Nipah virus disease reported; regional and global risk assessed as low"
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Australia sees assisting other Pacific nations as imperative to addressing global issues of climate change & disease control. Cuts to USAID, which @brookeenichols.bsky.social estimates has caused 750k deaths globally, limit Australian charities' abilities to help.
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‘The urgency of it was pretty terrifying’: the Australian charities grappling with Trump’s foreign aid freeze a year on
Education, food and health programs have been cut, resulting in preventable deaths, aid groups say
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January 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Australia sees assisting other Pacific nations as imperative to addressing global issues of climate change & disease control. Cuts to USAID, which @brookeenichols.bsky.social estimates has caused 750k deaths globally, limit Australian charities' abilities to help.
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On the latest episode of the @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social, CEID faculty Dr. @josephharrisbu.bsky.social talks with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, the best-selling author of "Everything is Tuberculosis," about the social injustices of this largely poverty-driven disease.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:54 PM
On the latest episode of the @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social, CEID faculty Dr. @josephharrisbu.bsky.social talks with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, the best-selling author of "Everything is Tuberculosis," about the social injustices of this largely poverty-driven disease.
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"We've known how to deal with TB curatively since the 1950s, & here we are, still losing over a million people every year to it. That just says so much about the world in which we find ourselves," says @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
"We've known how to deal with TB curatively since the 1950s, & here we are, still losing over a million people every year to it. That just says so much about the world in which we find ourselves," says @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social.
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One year since the Trump administration slashed USAID funding, Dr @brookeenichols.bsky.social's @impactcounter.bsky.social estimates these cuts have caused over 750,000 deaths — over 500,000 of them children —due to diseases including TB, HIV, & malaria, among others.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
One year since the Trump administration slashed USAID funding, Dr @brookeenichols.bsky.social's @impactcounter.bsky.social estimates these cuts have caused over 750,000 deaths — over 500,000 of them children —due to diseases including TB, HIV, & malaria, among others.
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CEID is delighted that our @beaconbio.bsky.social platform is contributing near real-time global surveillance data to the Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map recently launched by @nychealthsystem.bsky.social, a critical new resource for clinicians.
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NYC Health + Hospitals Launches Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map to Monitor and Prepare for Outbreaks - NYC Health + Hospitals
NYC Health + Hospitals today announced the launch of its Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map, a new interactive, open-source tool that visualizes global
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January 26, 2026 at 8:00 PM
CEID is delighted that our @beaconbio.bsky.social platform is contributing near real-time global surveillance data to the Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map recently launched by @nychealthsystem.bsky.social, a critical new resource for clinicians.
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🗓️ Don't forget to mark your calendars, Terriers! President Gilliam will host her first Annual Presidential Address on January 28, 2026.
Learn about BU’s vision in a changing world.
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Learn about BU’s vision in a changing world.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:14 PM
🗓️ Don't forget to mark your calendars, Terriers! President Gilliam will host her first Annual Presidential Address on January 28, 2026.
Learn about BU’s vision in a changing world.
Livestream will be available here ➡️ spr.ly/63328C0RlI
Learn about BU’s vision in a changing world.
Livestream will be available here ➡️ spr.ly/63328C0RlI
A country loses elimination status if there is continuous transmission of the same measles virus lineage for 12 months or more in the presence of adequate surveillance. The persistence of 2025 outbreaks into early 2026 continues to push the country closer to reestablishing endemic transmission.
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
A country loses elimination status if there is continuous transmission of the same measles virus lineage for 12 months or more in the presence of adequate surveillance. The persistence of 2025 outbreaks into early 2026 continues to push the country closer to reestablishing endemic transmission.
The US may be weeks from losing its measles elimination status. But what does that mean exactly?
Writing for @nyasciences.bsky.social, CEID affiliate @syramadad.bsky.social explains this isn't just a symbolic designation, it's a technical time-bound measurement.
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Writing for @nyasciences.bsky.social, CEID affiliate @syramadad.bsky.social explains this isn't just a symbolic designation, it's a technical time-bound measurement.
www.nyas.org/ideas-insigh...
The Alarming Resurgence of Measles in the United States
In hospitals, measles is not a memory, it is an airborne alarm bell.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The US may be weeks from losing its measles elimination status. But what does that mean exactly?
Writing for @nyasciences.bsky.social, CEID affiliate @syramadad.bsky.social explains this isn't just a symbolic designation, it's a technical time-bound measurement.
www.nyas.org/ideas-insigh...
Writing for @nyasciences.bsky.social, CEID affiliate @syramadad.bsky.social explains this isn't just a symbolic designation, it's a technical time-bound measurement.
www.nyas.org/ideas-insigh...
Curious about how your zip code compares in measles risk? Check the interactive map designed by CEID affiliate faculty Dr. John Brownstein (@bostonchildrens.bsky.social).
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/23/m...
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Measles is resurging across the country. Here are the New England towns most vulnerable to an outbreak. - The Boston Globe
Boston researchers have found a new way to pinpoint pockets of low vaccination rates.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Curious about how your zip code compares in measles risk? Check the interactive map designed by CEID affiliate faculty Dr. John Brownstein (@bostonchildrens.bsky.social).
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/23/m...
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CEID's Dr. David Hamer (@busph.bsky.social) adds that measles is highly contagious, requiring 93-95% vaccination rates in a community to maintain herd immunity.
January 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM
CEID's Dr. David Hamer (@busph.bsky.social) adds that measles is highly contagious, requiring 93-95% vaccination rates in a community to maintain herd immunity.
Although MA still has a high overall rate of MMR vaccination, CEID Director @bhadeliamd.bsky.social (@bumedicine.bsky.social) tells @bostonglobe.com the concern is when there are pockets of lower coverage, as seen in areas of western Mass.
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Measles is resurging across the country. Here are the New England towns most vulnerable to an outbreak. - The Boston Globe
Boston researchers have found a new way to pinpoint pockets of low vaccination rates.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Although MA still has a high overall rate of MMR vaccination, CEID Director @bhadeliamd.bsky.social (@bumedicine.bsky.social) tells @bostonglobe.com the concern is when there are pockets of lower coverage, as seen in areas of western Mass.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/23/m...
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