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SUMMARY:Public Forum on Ticks and Tick-borne Disease: Preventing Lyme and other Tick-borne Disease
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URL:http://stlawrence.cce.cornell.edu/events/2019/05/20/public-forum-on-ticks-and-tick-borne-disease-preventing-lyme-and-other-tick-borne-disease
DESCRIPTION:This evening
 presentation will provide an overview of the hazards and risks associated with
 human biting ticks in language that is understandable to the general
 public.  The risk of Lyme and other diseases has increased since the first
 reports in the 1970s. With that expansion, the list of germs transmitted by
 these ticks has grown long, but there are ways of significantly reducing
 exposures to these hazards.  The key to staying safe and healthy is to
 understand a few fundamental aspects of the biology and ecology of these
 dangerous bugs. Dr. Rich will explain the biology of these hazards and describe
 appropriate personal protection measures that can greatly reduce risk. 
 This is an open public forum with ample opportunity for questions from the
 audience.  Dr.
 Stephen M. Rich Professor
 of Microbiology, and Director
 of the Laboratory of Medical Zoology University
 of Massachusetts, AmherstBrief BioDr. Stephen Rich
 was born in Watertown, NY, attended Immaculate Heart Central High School and
 earned a B.S. in Biology at St. Lawrence University.  He went on to
 post-graduate study at the University of Vermont (M.S.) and Harvard University,
 and earned a PhD at the University of California (Irvine).  He established
 his lab and joined the faculty in the Division of Infectious Disease at Tufts
 University in 1999, and moved to the University of Massachusetts in 2005, where
 he is now a Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Laboratory of Medical
 Zoology.  He has more than 50 publications on disease causing microbes
 transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes. He has received numerous awards for his
 research accomplishments including the Pfizer Research Excellence Award (Pfizer
 Corp.), the William Procter Award (Sigma Xi), the Theodore Roosevelt
 Memorial Award (Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.), and the Crowell Research
 Scholarship (St. Lawrence University). His work includes findings on the
 origins of human malaria and novel treatments for that deadly disease. He is
 also recognized as an authority on ticks and tick-borne disease, including Lyme
 disease. His laboratory has revolutionized tick-borne disease surveillance and
 risk assessment with the crowd-sourced Tick Report testing program. 
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