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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
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
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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
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
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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
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 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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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
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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
February 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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.
February 5, 2026 at 3:41 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.
February 5, 2026 at 3:30 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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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
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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
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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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
January 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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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"

via @beaconbio.bsky.social - beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...
BEACON
Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:13 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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‘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
"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
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
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
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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.

Livestream will be available here ➡️ spr.ly/63328C0RlI
January 15, 2026 at 11:14 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.
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The Alarming Resurgence of Measles in the United States
In hospitals, measles is not a memory, it is an airborne alarm bell.
www.nyas.org
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 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.
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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
🐾 @bostonu.bsky.social students, today is the last day of the student health services immunization clinic, free for students on the student health insurance plan.
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“Super Flu” Is Here: Protect Yourself with a Flu Shot at BU This Week
Immunization clinics for students are January 22 and 23
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January 23, 2026 at 4:29 PM
A big thank you to our colleagues from Senegal, @onehealthinstitute.bsky.social, & @cepi.net who joined us Tuesday to share their expertise in the multifaceted One Health approach that is needed to address a disease like West Africa's latest Rift Valley Fever outbreak.
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Rift Valley Fever in West Africa: A One Health Perspective
On January 20th, 2026 Boston University's Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and University of California Davis's VISTA program co-hosted a webinar examining the range of factors in the latest multinational outbreak of Rift Valley Fever. The conversation included experts from the US & Senegal. Speakers: - Dr. Nicole Lurie, Executive Director of Preparedness and Response at CEPI, and CEPI’s US Director - Dr. Brian Bird, Director of the UC Davis One Health Institute Laboratory and Professor of Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases - Dr. Mathorio Fall, Head of the Animal Health Protection Division at the Directorate of Veterinary Services in the Ministry of Livestock in Senegal - Dr. Moussa Moïse Diagne, Research Scientist at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar - Dr. Britta Lassmann, Co-Director and Editor-in-Chief of BEACON at Boston University's Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases - Dr. Angel Desai, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, UC Davis
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January 22, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Ahead of @bostonu.bsky.social's upcoming immunization clinic on Jan. 22 & 23rd, @bhadeliamd.bsky.social reminds BU Today that even if flu shots don't fully prevent infection, they do prevent much more severe disease & the additional burden that puts on emergency rooms.
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“Super Flu” Is Here: Protect Yourself with a Flu Shot at BU This Week
Immunization clinics for students are January 22 and 23
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January 21, 2026 at 6:54 PM
In her recent research, CEID faculty Dr. @brookeenichols.bsky.social (@busph.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social) uses mathematical models and global epidemic simulations to determine minimum global capacity for respiratory virus sequencing for global pandemic preparedness.
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Global solidarity in genomic surveillance improves early detection of acute respiratory virus threats - Nature Communications
Respiratory virus genomic surveillance output is unevenly distributed globally. Here, the authors show that addressing this imbalance could substantially reduce the time to first detection o...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
As climate change shifts behaviors around home ventilation & AC use, how does this effect respiratory disease transmission? A team of researchers including @bumedicine.bsky.social student Palak Shah & CEID's Dr. Pranay Sinha have been studying this in the field in South India
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P-2197. Impact of ventilation on transmission risk and reproduction number of viruses in South India: implications for climate change and pandemic preparedness
AbstractBackground. Rising global temperatures are predicted to increase the time individuals spend in under-ventilated indoor spaces, especially in tropic
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January 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM