If you are in or close to a flooded area, be cautious against:
⚠️ Drowning
⚠️ Electrocution
⚠️ Water-borne diseases
⚠️ Food-borne diseases
⚠️ Vector-borne diseases
⚠️ Snake bites
⚠️ Drowning
⚠️ Electrocution
⚠️ Water-borne diseases
⚠️ Food-borne diseases
⚠️ Vector-borne diseases
⚠️ Snake bites
July 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
If you are in or close to a flooded area, be cautious against:
⚠️ Drowning
⚠️ Electrocution
⚠️ Water-borne diseases
⚠️ Food-borne diseases
⚠️ Vector-borne diseases
⚠️ Snake bites
⚠️ Drowning
⚠️ Electrocution
⚠️ Water-borne diseases
⚠️ Food-borne diseases
⚠️ Vector-borne diseases
⚠️ Snake bites
As you know I worked on monitoring global disease trends last year, and there were many news articles about concerning trends in vector borne diseases.
September 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
As you know I worked on monitoring global disease trends last year, and there were many news articles about concerning trends in vector borne diseases.
CDC's Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Infectious Diseases had an All Hands today to announce:
The Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria is dissolving.
Malaria ➡️ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.
Parasitic diseases ➡️ Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
Why? 👇
The Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria is dissolving.
Malaria ➡️ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.
Parasitic diseases ➡️ Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
Why? 👇
July 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
CDC's Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Infectious Diseases had an All Hands today to announce:
The Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria is dissolving.
Malaria ➡️ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.
Parasitic diseases ➡️ Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
Why? 👇
The Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria is dissolving.
Malaria ➡️ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.
Parasitic diseases ➡️ Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
Why? 👇
Places in Asia that have had vectorborne diseases for ages have noted changes in season timing and length…
apmen.org/resources/ap...
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APMEN Case Study "Adapting Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of Climate and Environmental Changes on Vector-Borne Diseases in the Asia-Pacific Region"
Climate and environmental changes are fundamentally reshaping the landscape of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) in the Asia-Pacific, threatening decades of progress in malaria control and elimination.
apmen.org
September 27, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Places in Asia that have had vectorborne diseases for ages have noted changes in season timing and length…
apmen.org/resources/ap...
apmen.org/resources/ap...
Floods can have a devastating impact on health from drowning, injuries to the risk of electrocution and even snake bites.
Floods can:
🚱 Contaminate drinking water
🚽 Disrupt sanitation
🦟 Create mosquito breeding sites
Stay alert. Stay safe.
Floods can:
🚱 Contaminate drinking water
🚽 Disrupt sanitation
🦟 Create mosquito breeding sites
Stay alert. Stay safe.
September 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Floods can have a devastating impact on health from drowning, injuries to the risk of electrocution and even snake bites.
Floods can:
🚱 Contaminate drinking water
🚽 Disrupt sanitation
🦟 Create mosquito breeding sites
Stay alert. Stay safe.
Floods can:
🚱 Contaminate drinking water
🚽 Disrupt sanitation
🦟 Create mosquito breeding sites
Stay alert. Stay safe.
Feels like a good time for a thread about all things exercise for people living with infection (and exposure)-associated complex chronic illnesses (IACCs) such as #MECFS, #LongCOVID and chronic #Lyme /tick- and vector-borne illness. Let’s start with a trip down memory lane.
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November 20, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Feels like a good time for a thread about all things exercise for people living with infection (and exposure)-associated complex chronic illnesses (IACCs) such as #MECFS, #LongCOVID and chronic #Lyme /tick- and vector-borne illness. Let’s start with a trip down memory lane.
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From air pollution to wildfires, from heat waves to vector-borne diseases, climate change harms our health and causes significant stress to the healthcare system. https://to.pbs.org/4w3f5Ui
How healthcare systems are dealing with climate change - Horizons
From air pollution to wildfires, from heat waves to vector-borne diseases, climate change harms our health and causes significant stress to the healthcare system. Horizons moderator William Brangham e...
to.pbs.org
July 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM
From air pollution to wildfires, from heat waves to vector-borne diseases, climate change harms our health and causes significant stress to the healthcare system. https://to.pbs.org/4w3f5Ui
From air pollution to wildfires, from heat waves to vector-borne diseases, climate change harms our health and causes significant stress to the healthcare system. https://to.pbs.org/4w3f5Ui
How healthcare systems are dealing with climate change - Horizons
From air pollution to wildfires, from heat waves to vector-borne diseases, climate change harms our health and causes significant stress to the healthcare system. Horizons moderator William Brangham e...
to.pbs.org
August 23, 2026 at 5:03 AM
From air pollution to wildfires, from heat waves to vector-borne diseases, climate change harms our health and causes significant stress to the healthcare system. https://to.pbs.org/4w3f5Ui
Vector borne diseases in 3…2…1
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects.
The country was until this month one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Vector borne diseases in 3…2…1
We are watching bird flu, mpox, and several vector-borne diseases spreading geographical area and seasonality…
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We are watching bird flu, mpox, and several vector-borne diseases spreading geographical area and seasonality…
Just because you have a vector, and a vector borne disease detected in an area before… doesn’t mean nothings changed.
Change in numbers of vectors, how long they survive the season, changes in local vs travel associated cases can all happen when climates change whether that’s due to
Change in numbers of vectors, how long they survive the season, changes in local vs travel associated cases can all happen when climates change whether that’s due to
September 27, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Just because you have a vector, and a vector borne disease detected in an area before… doesn’t mean nothings changed.
Change in numbers of vectors, how long they survive the season, changes in local vs travel associated cases can all happen when climates change whether that’s due to
Change in numbers of vectors, how long they survive the season, changes in local vs travel associated cases can all happen when climates change whether that’s due to
My past NIH funding and current CDC funding goes to support understanding mosquitoes and training vector professionals including students. We are both the POOREST region in the US (little state $) and have the HIGHEST threat of vector borne disease (dengue, malaria, West Nile, etc.). 🦟🧪
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
January 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My past NIH funding and current CDC funding goes to support understanding mosquitoes and training vector professionals including students. We are both the POOREST region in the US (little state $) and have the HIGHEST threat of vector borne disease (dengue, malaria, West Nile, etc.). 🦟🧪
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Vector:
An organism that transmits infectious pathogens from one host to another.
When a vector transmits a pathogen to a new host, it can cause illness in that host, resulting in a vector-borne disease.
The disease is stupidity.
Vector:
An organism that transmits infectious pathogens from one host to another.
When a vector transmits a pathogen to a new host, it can cause illness in that host, resulting in a vector-borne disease.
The disease is stupidity.
July 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Vector:
An organism that transmits infectious pathogens from one host to another.
When a vector transmits a pathogen to a new host, it can cause illness in that host, resulting in a vector-borne disease.
The disease is stupidity.
Vector:
An organism that transmits infectious pathogens from one host to another.
When a vector transmits a pathogen to a new host, it can cause illness in that host, resulting in a vector-borne disease.
The disease is stupidity.
A vector ecologist explains the complexities of tracking tick-borne diseases like Lyme in a climate-changed world
Why Ticks and Lyme Disease Are Soaring This Summer
A vector ecologist explains the complexities of tracking tick-borne diseases like Lyme in a climate-changed world
spklr.io
July 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A vector ecologist explains the complexities of tracking tick-borne diseases like Lyme in a climate-changed world
The CDC fired 600 people this week. During a covid surge. Restricted covid boosters this fall. School just started and measles herd immunity is lacking in many states. Vector borne diseases are attempting to gain stream. Bird flu isn’t being monitored properly.
August 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The CDC fired 600 people this week. During a covid surge. Restricted covid boosters this fall. School just started and measles herd immunity is lacking in many states. Vector borne diseases are attempting to gain stream. Bird flu isn’t being monitored properly.
My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠
Full job description is linked below.
Come join us on the Palouse!
Full job description is linked below.
Come join us on the Palouse!
February 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠
Full job description is linked below.
Come join us on the Palouse!
Full job description is linked below.
Come join us on the Palouse!
I wonder if Jon Stewart is going to have the same amount of trouble with insect repellent as the vector borne diseases spread. Any “funny” jokes about mosquito netting? What about hand washing. There’s always two people at the sink doing that.
#OneOfTheTwo
#OneOfTheTwo
December 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I wonder if Jon Stewart is going to have the same amount of trouble with insect repellent as the vector borne diseases spread. Any “funny” jokes about mosquito netting? What about hand washing. There’s always two people at the sink doing that.
#OneOfTheTwo
#OneOfTheTwo
More fun with vector-borne disease
September 27, 2024 at 5:10 AM
More fun with vector-borne disease
Ok ok Imma try to be on here a little more, sharing infection-associated chronic condition research and news for those with Long COVID, ME/CFS, chronic tick- and vector-borne illness and more. Bear with me as I figure it out 🙏🏻
November 8, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Ok ok Imma try to be on here a little more, sharing infection-associated chronic condition research and news for those with Long COVID, ME/CFS, chronic tick- and vector-borne illness and more. Bear with me as I figure it out 🙏🏻
Sleeping sickness is a vector-borne parasitic disease transmitted by infected tsetse flies.
Symptoms incl. fever, headaches, joint pain and, in advanced stages, neurological symptoms like confusion, disrupted sleep patterns and behavioural changes
3/3 - END
Symptoms incl. fever, headaches, joint pain and, in advanced stages, neurological symptoms like confusion, disrupted sleep patterns and behavioural changes
3/3 - END
January 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Sleeping sickness is a vector-borne parasitic disease transmitted by infected tsetse flies.
Symptoms incl. fever, headaches, joint pain and, in advanced stages, neurological symptoms like confusion, disrupted sleep patterns and behavioural changes
3/3 - END
Symptoms incl. fever, headaches, joint pain and, in advanced stages, neurological symptoms like confusion, disrupted sleep patterns and behavioural changes
3/3 - END
Long story short.
Vector-borne disease is going up, probs mainly due to climate issues.
Dengue has gone ballistic…
HIV is increasing,and so is TB.
But anyone that has been awake saw this coming.
As for measles… kids are dying… and there is NO EXCUSE for it.
Vector-borne disease is going up, probs mainly due to climate issues.
Dengue has gone ballistic…
HIV is increasing,and so is TB.
But anyone that has been awake saw this coming.
As for measles… kids are dying… and there is NO EXCUSE for it.
July 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Long story short.
Vector-borne disease is going up, probs mainly due to climate issues.
Dengue has gone ballistic…
HIV is increasing,and so is TB.
But anyone that has been awake saw this coming.
As for measles… kids are dying… and there is NO EXCUSE for it.
Vector-borne disease is going up, probs mainly due to climate issues.
Dengue has gone ballistic…
HIV is increasing,and so is TB.
But anyone that has been awake saw this coming.
As for measles… kids are dying… and there is NO EXCUSE for it.
Our estimate: the additional greenhouse gases emitted between now and 2035 could cause up to 1.3 million more deaths worldwide. That's just directly from heat & doesn't include the other broader effects of climate change, such as droughts, floods, wars, vector-borne diseases, hurricanes, wildfires
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Our estimate: the additional greenhouse gases emitted between now and 2035 could cause up to 1.3 million more deaths worldwide. That's just directly from heat & doesn't include the other broader effects of climate change, such as droughts, floods, wars, vector-borne diseases, hurricanes, wildfires
