Courtesy Photo | Defense Health Agency | 10.16.2024
The Defense Health Agency-Public Health Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Branch is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the release of a global emerging infectious disease supplement for the November 2024 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Journal cover courtesy of the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal)...
Photo by Jamie Livengood | Walter Reed Army Institute of Research | 05.27.2024
Researcher Esther Omuseni and graduate student Vane Kwamboka work with samples in the biosafety cabinet at the GEIS-affiliated AFI Basic Science Lab in Kisumu, Kenya. Thanks to enhancements installed to support their GEIS work, the lab amont of samples the lab is able to process daily has increased 10-fold. | Photo by Sarah Day Smith for HJFMRI...
Courtesy Photo | Defense Health Agency | 01.04.2024
U.S. Army Capt. William Kowallis from the Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen presented on wastewater surveillance for infectious diseases during the first day of the Next-Generation Sequencing Summit. The summit occurred in September 2023. (DOD photo)...
Courtesy Photo | Defense Health Agency | 01.04.2024
The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division’s Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Branch hosted its first Next-Generation Sequencing Summit in Silver Spring, Maryland, in September 2023. Attendees included representatives from the GEIS network of global partner laboratories and other U.S. government agencies....
Courtesy Photo | Public Health Command - Pacific | 02.25.2021
Capt. John Eads, chief of entomology for Public Health Command-Pacific in Japan, examines a vector sample in a microscope at Camp Zama, Japan, Feb. 25, 2021. This spring, Eads and his team will launch the first ever Pre-Exercise Vector Surveillance program for the Indo-Pacific region. (Courtesy photo)...
Courtesy Photo | Public Health Command - Pacific | 02.25.2021
Staff Sgt. Matthew Pascual, noncommissioned officer in charge of entomology for Public Health Command-Pacific in Japan, assembles the BG-Sentinel 2 trap, specialized at collecting the day biting mosquitoes Aedes albopictus, Ae. aegypti, and Ae. polynesiensis on Camp Zama, Japan, Feb. 25, 2021. Collecting vector samples allows for PHC-P scientists to analyze areas of interest for potential......
Courtesy Photo | Public Health Command - Pacific | 02.25.2021
Staff Sgt. Matthew Pascual, noncommissioned officer in charge of entomology for Public Health Command-Pacific in Japan, collects mosquito specimens from a surveillance light trap to test for vector-borne pathogens of human concern on Camp Zama, Japan, Feb. 25, 2021. Collecting vector samples allows for PHC-P scientists to analyze areas of interest for potential vector-borne diseases that could......
Courtesy Photo | Public Health Command - Pacific | 02.25.2021
Staff Sgt. Matthew Pascual, noncommissioned officer in charge of entomology for Public Health Command-Pacific in Japan, ssamples for mosquito larvae during a vector surveillance survey on Camp Zama, Japan, Feb. 25, 2021. Collecting vector samples allows for PHC-P scientists to analyze areas of interest for potential vector-borne diseases that could impact the health of the force. (Courtesy photo)...
