Sam Telford, MS, SD is a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Health.  He is an epidemiologist focusing on arthropod-transmitted infections. Early in career, he was involved in the development of the only approved human vaccine for Lyme disease.  He is an internationally renowned expert in Lyme disease, Babesiosis, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and one of the early pioneers in two newly discovered tick-borne diseases—deer tick virus and Borrelia miyamotoi disease.  He is an advisor to local, state and national organizations on public health interventions against tick and mosquito borne infection.  He is Tufts own “germ-hunter” traipsing the world to find new and exotic diseases.

Read more about Dr. Telford at: http://vetprofiles.tufts.edu/faculty/sam-r-telford-iii#tab-pubs