5 Signs of Lyme Disease You Really Shouldn’t Ignore | SELF Magazine

CEID faculty Dr. Cassandra Pierre recently spoke to SELF about five common symptoms of Lyme disease, a tick-borne pathogen, to recognize, especially for those who live in areas where black-legged deer ticks or western black-legged ticks are common. You have a bull’s-eye-shaped rash (or something like it)—or you spot a tick latched onto your skin. […]

To stop a pandemic before it starts, protect dairy workers from H5N1 | The Washington Post

Because of pasteurization practices which render pathogens such as H5N1 inactive, general consumers don not need to be concerned about contracting avian flu through milk or other dairy products. However, as CEID director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia and CEID affiliate Lauren Sauer write in an op-ed for The Washington Post, “Preventing farmworker infections and uncontrolled spread […]

Should I be worried about bird flu in Mass. — or in my milk? A local expert weighs in | WBUR

While public health experts are working urgently to better understand H5N1, CEID director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia reminds WBUR that for the general population, there isn’t currently need for concern or alarm about H5N1, especially because all Massachusetts grocery stores require milk to be pasteurized, which renders any potential H5N1 virus fragments inactive. Read more on […]

COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record low, the CDC says | ABC News

COVID hospitalizations were down to an all time low of 5,615 hospital admissions in the most recently reported week compared to over 150,000 per week at the height of the Omicrom variant surge. “The significant decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths to these new lows is encouraging, showing that our public health measures and vaccination […]

America’s Infectious-Disease Barometer Is Off | The Atlantic

The public is quick to focus on what is the newest infectious disease concern – and equally quick to move on when a new threat appears. CEID director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia spoke to The Atlantic about the current need to balance researching to better understand H5N1, while not ignoring other re-emerging threats such as measles. […]