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CEID improves resilience against epidemics globally.
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One of the challenges of tracing & containing the current Ebola outbreak is that it's unfolding "along corridors of insecurity, mining-linked mobility, cross-border care-seeking & fragile health systems," CEID affiliate faculty @drsyramadad.bsky.social writes for NYAS.
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This interdisciplinary research combined computational techniques to collect & analyze data with social movement theory. "As engineers, we're good at collecting & analyzing large amounts of data, but extracting meaning from them requires an interdisciplinary approach," he says.
"This is an opportunity for policymakers and health officials as online discourse can be used to identify emerging topics and ideas that might have public safety implications," says Stringhini.
The existing countermeasures against Ebola are not effective against all strains of the virus, including the currently spreading Bundibugyo strain, which makes treatment and prevention challenging, @drsyramadad.bsky.social explains on BBC.
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Transporting Americans responding to Ebola back to the US would allow them access to biocontainment care units that can provide higher standards of care than can be provided at rapidly enacted field hospitals, @bhadeliamd.bsky.social tells @npr.org.
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Axios highlights efforts to monitor infectious disease transmission around the World Cup, including CEID's reports through @beaconbio.bsky.social, and our maps of other mass gatherings near host cities.
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The FIFA World Cup officially kicks off today, starting with Mexico vs South Africa in Mexico City and Korea Republic vs Czechia in Guadalajara! To help monitor potential public health risks, CEID has created a map showing mass gatherings near stadiums.
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CEID faculty Dr. Gianluca Stringhini discusses his new book which looks at the Reopen Movement from the COVID-19 pandemic to examine how social media not only shapes online discourse, but can lead to movements with real societal effects.
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With the FIFA World Cup approaching, CEID affiliate faculty @drsyramadad.bsky.social highlights the health concerns that hospitals near stadiums and fan sites should be prepared for, including effects of strong heat, and infectious disease spread.
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Since April 2025, BU's Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON) has tracked and monitored 181 pathogens in 169 countries—and 1 in space—to support public health organizations, governments, journalists, and doctors 🦠
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Heat, cardiac events, behavioral health, security threats, and infectious disease are all at play
