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Cooper’s Hawk (accipiter cooperii) perched while hunting.

What just swooped toward the bird feeder?

Clinical associate professor Maureen Murray, V03, spoke with The Boston Globe about the most common injuries Tufts Wildlife Clinic treats in Cooper’s hawks

Young woman with brown hair, sitting on her sofa with a medical mask as a precaution against the spread of virus, along with her dog of breed Beagle

A year into the pandemic, Nat Geo photographers turn their lenses on pets

Clinical associate professor Emily McCobb spoke with National Geographic on the pandemic’s impact on human-animal relationships and pets’ roles in families

black Labrador retriever laying in a pile of yellow fall leaves facing camera

FDA continues investigation into dog heart damage linked to diet

Professor Lisa Freeman comments on her latest research into possible connections between diets and heart disease in dogs in an NBC News story

Dr. Yuki Nakayama (right) teaches veterinary students at the Luke and Lily Lerner Spay/Neuter Clinic at Cummings Veterinary Medical Center at Tufts University

Veterinary colleges continue to prepare students to enter profession

Associate dean for academic affairs Nicholas Frank spoke with JAVMA, offering tips for fourth-year veterinary students preparing to enter the field

Dog Swab testing on black Labrador retriever for COVID-19 in Dr. Jonathan Runstadler's Laboratory

Racing to save humans through animal research

Professor Jonathan Runstadler comments on his lab's work studying SARS-CoV-2 and the potential for transmission between humans and animals in a @avmajournals story about the contributions from veterinary researchers around the virus

Female veterinarian examines little dog with stethoscope

How Covid-19 Jumps From Humans to Animals, Worrying Scientists

Postdoctoral scholar Kaitlin Sawatzki was featured in a Wall Street Journal video story on concerns around COVID transmission between humans and animals

Stephanie Bertrand, assistant farm manager at Cummings School Farm at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, provides care for the Jacob sheep that are integral to the research being led by University of Massachusetts Medical School.

An experimental gene therapy was little Alissa's only hope. Now, instead of certain death, she faces an uncertain future.

Cummings School is mentioned in a USA Today story about an experimental gene therapy developed at UMass Medical School to address a deadly disease in children

Pile of rat poison on white background -Wheat, corn and sunflower mixed with poison

First MA Bald Eagle Rat Poisoning Death Highlights Wider Problem

Clinical associate professor Maureen Murray comments in Patch.com on the death of an eagle from rodenticide poisoning, the first recorded in the species in MA

Mother of 10-year-old battling tick-borne disease: ‘his brain is on fire’

Professor Sam Telford comments on local numbers of Lyme disease cases in 2020 and tick-prevention in a Boston 25 story

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