BEACON Launches Today, Delivering AI-powered Global Disease Surveillance
Infectious diseases are emerging and re-emerging at an unprecedented rate, with profound impacts on global health. In just the first three months of 2025, the U.S. recorded as many measles deaths as it did in the previous 24 years combined. New zoonotic diseases, naturally transmissible between humans and animals, continue to emerge with alarming regularity. COVID-19 illustrated how an outbreak in one region can quickly become a global crisis.