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Dr. Robert Heimer, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, explains how a QR code can help people with opioid use disorder in an interview with News 8 at Noon.

Mosquitoes are infecting people across the Americas with dengue at historic levels and U.S. travelers are bringing the potentially life-threatening virus home with them. YSPH infectious disease specialist Dr. Albert Ko is also concerned about climate change increasing the spread of the virus.

How has the risk of contracting Long COVID changed over the years, as the virus has evolved and almost everyone in the U.S. has gotten vaccinated, infected, or both (sometimes many times over)?

A mobile laboratory-in-a-van that brings testing services to underserved Connecticut neighborhoods is enabling Yale Pathology of Yale School of Medicine to establish relationships and build trust with community organizations.

Sebastian Salazar (lower left), MPH '25 (epidemiology of microbial diseases), introduced Casa Segura, community health initiative led by the Yale student-run Neighborhood Health Project (NHP) in the spring. Its purpose is to empower recent immigrants to New Haven's Hispanic communities by providing them the knowledge to manage their health conditions, especially diabetes.

YSPH microbiologist Anne Wyllie's creation of the novel diagnostic protocol SalivaDirect dramatically expanded testing access during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Wyllie and the SalivaDirect team are exploring the use of saliva testing for influenza A and B, and for respiratory syncytial virus.

More people in the U.S. are being diagnosed with tick-related diseases every year, but we don’t have to let that stop us from getting outdoors. YSPH's Dr. Peter Krause discusses tick-related illnesses, where the ticks are, and how to avoid them.

In a new study, Yale researchers identified the targets in the human body to which pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors bind. Their findings, they say, could help address the rising threat of vector-borne diseases, a leading cause of death worldwide.

Climate change and a huge deer population attracted new tick species to New England and allowed native ones to thrive. YSPH's Goudarz Molaei, associate clinical professor and director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station’s Tick and Tick-borne Disease Surveillance Program, is interviewed.