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BEACON Disease Event Digest: Week of June 9th to June 15th: spr.ly/60154PATx

5 states reported travel related measles cases & exposures over last week: MA, CO, AZ, NM, DC. If you were at one of these locations, check your vaccination status & report symptoms in 21 days (following exposure dates) to your health care provider: beaconbio.org/en/event/?even…

“90% of unvaccinated individuals who are exposed to measles will become infected”

NEW: Beth Cameron , Craig Spencer MD MPH and I share the impact of US funding cuts and policy changes to global health security now and in the future in Vaccine journal. "A tale of two U.S. Global health security futures—withdraw or evolve?" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to author with Dr. Nahid Bhadelia Craig Spencer MD MPH as we try to make sense of the landscape and chart a safer, more secure future, including for all Americans, from bio threats. Our conclusion? Ensuring U.S. pandemic security requires strategic global engagement, not retreat.

The donuts were intentionally poisoned at the party. Followup to BEACON request for information about a mass food poisoning in Madagascar which led to at least 20 deaths, with 17 individuals remaining in critical condition. beaconbio.org/en/event/?even…

"Rather than retreating, the US must sustain & strengthen its global health programs, to safeguard both international stability and American pandemic preparedness," writes Dr. Nahid Bhadelia in Vaccines journal w/ Beth Cameron & Craig Spencer MD MPH. doi.org/10.1016/j.vacc…

Travel-associated chikungunya virus infection identified in a returning traveler to Germany from the Seychelles - Request for Information (RFI) for CHIKV transmission in Seychelles. beaconbio.org/en/event/?even… via BEACON

A new case of wild poliovirus (WPV) has been confirmed in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, increasing the total number of cases in Pakistan for 2025 to 12 spr.ly/60194wQQd

Cambodia reports fifth human HPAI (H5N1) fatality in 2025, in a 52-year-old man with exposure to sick chickens spr.ly/60104wxAE

Two unrelated human Nipah virus cases confirmed in Kerala, India, one fatal and one in critical condition spr.ly/60184WAzw

A cholera outbreak in Kinshasa triggers national health emergency and coordinated response. Cholera is endemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with tens of thousands of suspected cases reported annually. spr.ly/60184qX06

Increase in human severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome cases across Japan, with expanding geographic spread and concurrent rise in pet infections spr.ly/60104QSok

Announcing BEACON Trusted Partner Program: Strengthening Global Health Through Collaboration ow.ly/Nw2V50WloOX Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) Dr. Nahid Bhadelia UC Davis NETEC EU HERA ECDC PAHO/WHO Dr Jean Kaseya Craig Spencer MD MPH Dr Sylvie Briand CEPI Dr. Syra Madad TEPHINET IDSA

Rabies detected in arctic fox on Svalbard archipelago, Norway (second case in 2025). spr.ly/60164awDu

Human death from plague in Flagstaff, Arizona, and prairie dog die-off signal presence of Yersinia pestis in the environment spr.ly/60124ICmo

Japanese encephalitis alert in Nagaland, India amid rising seasonal cases spr.ly/601940Ust