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
Infectious Disease
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
Tickborne Diseases
Professor Sam Telford was featured in a New England Journal of Medicine video on ticks and how they transmit various diseases.
Tick Talk: Facts and Fiction
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Scientists Investigate a Bird Flu Outbreak in Seals
Scientist Wendy Puryear and Postdoctoral researcher Kaitlin Sawatzki are quoted in this NY Times article about their recently published avian influenza research. (subscription required to view)
Bird Flu Associated with Hundreds of Seal Deaths in New England in 2022, Tufts Researchers Find
A new study from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is the first to connect highly pathogenic avian influenza to a large scale mortality event in wild mammals
Will bird flu spark the next pandemic?
Postdoctoral researcher Kaitlin Sawatzki is quoted by Al Jazeera on avian influenza and risks for spillover.