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Stephen Rich - University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA, US

Stephen Rich Stephen Rich

Professor of Microbiology | University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA, UNITED STATES

Stephen Rich studies zoonotic diseases, with a focus on tick-borne diseases and human malaria. He is the director TickReport.

Expertise (5)

Alpha-gal

Zoonotic Diseases

Malaria Research

Parasitic diseases

Ticks and Tick Borne Diseases

Biography

Stephen Rich's expertise on tick-borne disease, including Lyme disease, Anaplasma and Babesia, has made him a go-to expert for commentary and predictions on the risks of these diseases.

He directs the Laboratory of Medical Zoology at UMass Amherst, that focuses on infectious diseases, with particular attention to those diseases with transmission cycles that involve other animal species.

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Stephen Rich talks about the Alpha-Gal Syndrome

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Education (4)

University of California Irvine: Ph.D., Biological Sciences

Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health: S.M., Tropical Medicine

University of Vermont: M.S., Zoology

Saint Lawrence University: B.S., Biology

Media Coverage (3)

Climate change may make Massachusetts more hospitable to pests

Daily Hampshire Gazette  

2019-11-10

Stephen M. Rich, microbiology and director of the Laboratory of Medical Zoology, comments in a news story about climate change and how it has an impact on pests, including ticks. Rich says in addition to the climate, there are other factors that seem to be helping the tick population increase over recent years.

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Climate change may allow mosquitoes, rodents to proliferate

Worcester Telegram  online

2019-11-05

Unlike mosquitoes, evidence for climate change’s impact on tick populations and lifecycles is dubious, at best, according to Stephen Rich, a professor of microbiology at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research focuses on diseases that are maintained in animals, and sometimes transmitted to humans, such as Lyme disease and EEE.

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Mosquitoes Carrying West Nile Virus Found Early In Season

New England Public Radio  radio

2018-07-31

While West Nile has raised a lot of attention, Stephen Rich, a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a bit skeptical. "We spend a lot more money in this state surveilling mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases, which are rarer and tend not to cause serious illness, than we do for example to study ticks, which are a much bigger threat," said Rich.

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