A Veterinarian Who Specializes in Dairy Cows Talks About Avian Influenza
How the H5N1 virus is affecting the nation’s cattle, according to an expert at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Infectious Disease
Scientists Make Leap in Creating Lyme Resistant Mice
Sam Telford is quoted in a Vineyard Gazette on research that has helped make lab mice resistant to Lyme disease through gene editing.
Shrews, Not Mice, Could Be Main Source of Vineyard’s Lyme Disease
The Vineyard Gazette features new research from Assistant Research Professor Heidi Goethert on shrews and Lyme disease.
Shrews, not mice, emerge as main driver of Lyme disease on Martha's Vineyard
WBUR highlights new research on shrews and Lyme disease from Professor Sam Telford and Assistant Research Professor Heidi Goethert.
Bird flu: What local experts say about risk of human-to-human infection
Professor Jonathan Runstadler is quoted throughout a Worcester Telegram & Gazette article on avian influenza.
‘Do I need to take down my bird feeder?’ and other questions about bird flu in Mass.
Professor Jonathan Runstadler is quoted throughout a Boston Globe article answering common questions about avian influenza.
What to know about bird flu cases in CT flocks
Professor Jonathan Runstadler comments in CT NPR on avian influenza cases in the Northeast, citing low risk for human-human transmission.
Tufts Professor Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Charles Shoemaker develops immunotherapeutics for a wide range of diseases in animals and people
Large-Scale Study Will Seek to Unearth Causes of Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease
$20 million NIH grant will support a team led by Tufts University School of Medicine researchers to enroll one of the U.S.’s largest prospective studies of Lyme disease patients