Continuing ed credits are on me this month. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/m…

Helping teach a bunch of folks from different states in a 3-day “vector biology boot camp.” Someone hinted that pic looks like we’re in a cult. We’re not. Just learning how to do mosquito and tick surveillance.

Claymation and ticks. Perfect together. youtu.be/k5_5vM5aub4

Today's fun email subject line: "Team Diarrhea."

CRISPR continues to prove incredibly amazing and useful. Hopefully techniques like the ones described here will lead to faster detection of infections, which would be a boon for public health. theverge.com/2018/2/15/17012…

Our group in the northeast is one of the “centers of excellence” trying to turn this trend around. time.com/5144257/fewer-scien…

Overheard from my desk this morning: "Do you know how many stools you had in the past 24 hours? Were they watery?" Love public health.

We've been part of a group of states that have been examining Lyme disease surveillance for the past few years. Today, a whole issue of papers on that work got published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

You may not want to feed your dog raw chicken, especially raw chicken necks: scienceblog.com/499312/raw-c…

Happy to be talking ticks, mosquitoes, and public heath today with my colleagues at CDC and our regional vector center of excellence. Trying to make a difference in a whole classification of diseases, and new ones show up all the time. neregionalvectorcenter.com/

Here I am talking about ticks and winter. They even quoted me saying its been "wicked cold." And I'm not even from Boston! dailygazette.com/article/201…

What investigations in public health lead to never ceases to amaze me. Rattlesnake pills? Ground up rattlesnake? To cure what ails you? Really?cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/…

All focusing on banned words in the @CDCgov news out last night. Just as troubling is the suggested phrase “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes.” It’s unclear if this is just words or new policy. Bad news if the latter.

Influenza is now widespread in NY, and that means masking regulations are in effect for unvaccinated healthcare workers.

I’ve been working with ticks and tick-borne diseases since 1992. They’re cool. And if you find one trapped in amber, it might have dinosaur blood in it. theverge.com/2017/12/12/1676…

Ricin in a Vermont retirement community. Public health: You never know what the next day will bring.

Please don't drink raw milk. The cost-benefit analysis definitely falls on the wrong side of the ledger.

Someone--definitely not Hallmark--has decreed today to be Thank You Public Health Day. Working in it, I find public health to be a very broad, and often misunderstood field. Hopefully it gets some well-deserved good press today. #TYPHD

First day of rifle season here in most of NY. Checking for ticks, collecting blood for arbovirus testing.