Sam Telford

Infectious disease epidemiologist...30 years of working on Lyme disease and co-transmitted infections.

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

Excellent overview just in time for Memorial Day weekend...retweet and share

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

When Does a Tick Bite Need Antibiotics? https://t.co/To0UIGuqx5

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

Post taken down...bad news about ProMed. Retweet. Maybe ProMed belongs at ASTMH

[Nantucket Current @ACKCurrent]

An invasive species of tick from the Far East was discovered on #Nantucket for the first time last month.

The Asian longhorned tick, which was first detected in the United States in 2017, has made its way to the island.

https://t.co/QYXf2nWO5i

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

@thetickguy One sock with permethrin the other without. Hunting chiggers but stumbled into lone star larval bomb. 2 days later, thank God for benadryl cream.

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

@TuftsLyme The best odor neutralizer I know for carcasses is sporicidin with 0.5% glutaraldehyde. It is the standard disinfectant in my lab but I have used it for dogshit on my shoes, deer rumen fluid in my truck, fish smells...and who doesn't love the smell of phenol?

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

@RepMcGovern @ShrewsburyMAGov There is nothing wrong with that dam. Why fix what ain't broke? (I live across the street.)

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

Of course wood ticks are dog ticks but the message is loud and clear

[Partners In Health @PIH]

Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.

Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.

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[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

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[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

Community policies to reduce #SARSCoV2 transmission (eg restricting indoor restaurant dining) & school policies to postpone higher-risk activities (eg, indoor sports practice or competition) can help ensure safe reopening and operation of schools @CDCgov https://t.co/a9k8QG0HAg

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Virtually everybody is worse off than somebody else, if only in one dimension, so there are nearly unlimited opportunities to pander to people's sense of injustice, victimhood and entitlement.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

This is India. Even the six-foot rule is totally impractical. Yet there are relatively few #Coronavirus cases. Is it the heat? Humidity? Inoculations against malaria and other infections? I’d really like to know

[Christy Petersen @kalicat15]

In light of health decisions made from local to global, a reminder. The profession trained to detect and control emerging infections, who took an oath for "promotion of public health": veterinarians. Include them in your conversations please. It will matter. @ASTMH

[Sam Telford @ixodesdammini]

Coronavirus cases rise by almost 3,000 in 12 hours to more than 22,000 https://t.co/QvMKyOuduU via https://t.co/ng8wSyB6Pv