Avoid Ticks (and Lyme Disease) This Summer
Professor Sam Telford shared tips with Healthday on the best way to prevent Lyme disease and ticks attaching to your skin.
Infectious Disease
AVIAN INFLUENZA LINKED TO SEAL DIE-OFF
Wildlife.org highlights a recently published study on avian influenza from Cummings School researchers and quotes scientist Wendy Puryear.
A frightening virus is killing a massive number of wild birds
Scientist Wendy Puryear is quoted in a Vox.com story on avian influenza and the related surveillance work she and colleagues are doing
What to know about tick, Lyme season following a mild winter
Professor Sam Telford is quoted in an Associated Press story about the increase in ticks as the weather warms up.
Vaccine Delivery by Drone
Published research by Cummings School Ph.D. student analyzes perceptions in Rwanda
A Focus on Animals, Near and Far, to Fight Infectious Disease
From rats in Boston to primates in Peru, Marieke Rosenbaum's research projects at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine aim to improve public health
Tick Safety Tips from Lyme Disease Experts at Tufts
Warm weather means tick season. Faculty at the School of Medicine and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine share tips for keeping the vectors—and the infections they transmit—away
Filling a Need in Infectious Disease Research
Cummings School’s Comparative Pathology and Genomics Shared Resource offers extensive services
Gettin’ Piggy with It
Rachel Kanefsky becomes first Cummings School student to earn scholarship from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation