This Cummings Grad Researches Vector-Borne Diseases for the CDC
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Tess van Kan, VG16, credits the school’s M.S. in Infectious Disease & Global Health program for giving her a leg up
Articles tagged: Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health
Join the Fight Against Lyme Disease
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
The Lyme Disease Challenge event November 1 seeks students and faculty from disparate fields to combat the disease Students, post-docs, and faculty from across Tufts University are invited to lend their expertise and fresh ideas… Read More
Tufts Institute of the Environment Marks Its Twentieth Anniversary
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
A program celebrating two decades of activism includes awards to Janetrix Hellen Amuguni and Jennifer Baldwin and a talk by U.S. Senator Edward Markey
Spider Monkey Mission
Monday, September 16th, 2019
Cummings School alumni and faculty members team up to help a monkey victim of the illegal pet trade
The young spider monkey was no more than a year old when her mother was killed. Poachers in Belize had shot her so they could sell the young monkey as a pet. The shotgun blast knocked the small monkey clear of the tree where she was being cradled by her mother—shattering her right arm, dislocating her tail, and peppering her body with shot pellets.
Why is there a EEE vaccine for horses but not for humans?
Friday, September 13th, 2019
Cummings School Professor Sam Telford, an expert on infections spread by mosquitoes and ticks, explains
Actually, there is a human vaccine for eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), but it has never been approved for public use.
Painted Turtle Hatching Time-Lapse Video
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Watch how hard a baby painted turtle must work to hatch from its egg in this time-lapse video of 13 hours condensed to just 40 seconds!
How to Stay Safe from EEE
Tuesday, August 20th, 2019
The rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus has been detected in Massachusetts and Connecticut A second human case of Eastern equine encephalitis virus infection this year was confirmed in Massachusetts last week, in a young… Read More
3D printed pill samples gut microbiome to aid diagnosis and treatment
Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
The pill is the first known working device capable of non-invasively and accurately assessing the profile of bacterial species inhabiting any stage of the gastrointestinal tract
A World Without Rinderpest
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Cummings School’s Jeffrey Mariner, who played a key role in eradicating the devastating cattle plague from the wild, weighs in on an effort to destroy laboratory samples of the virus
Lyme Bacterium Predates the U.S. Lab That Conspiracy Theorists Say Unleashed Ticks on Public
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
As Congress orders an investigation of whether the Pentagon is to blame for the Lyme disease epidemic, a Cummings School expert explains why that’s a waste of public time and money The U.S. House of… Read More
