VECTOR-BORNE ZOONOSES LABORATORY NEWS

• Texas Tech University's Biological Threat Research  Laboratory (BTRL) identified the first known case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H5N1) being transmitted from a mammal, specifically a dairy cow, to a human

• Lubbock sees first probable Monkeypox case in the county

• Texas Tech receives grant for white-tailed deer studies from Deer Breeders Corp.

• TIEHH Receives Funding from Rolling Plains Research Foundation to Staff New Lab Addressing Quali Decline

• Climate Change Likely Will Allow Tropical Disease to Thrive in United States

• Texas Tech Researchers Looking at Future Dengue Forecast Find Intricate Relationships Between Mosquitoes, Virus and Climate Change

• Researcher Cites Complacency, Apathy For Recent West Nile Outbreak

• Infectious Feral Hogs

• Texas Tech Quail Researchers Receive $244,000 in Grants from Park Cities Quail

• Part 4: Forensic Findings

• $1.5 Million Grant Helps Researchers Address Quail Decline

• Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Private Donors Play Key Roles in the Largest Quail Disease Decline Study Ever Undertaken

Congressional Testimony: Invited testimony before a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology entitled Science of Zika: The DNA of an Epidemic. 25 May 2016, Washington, DC

Invited Presentation - Invasive Species: Influence on Emerging and Resurgent Diseases. Climate Sciences Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (May 03, 2016).

Invited Presentation - Presley, S.M. Zika Threat: Legal Issues & Public Health. Legal Issues and Public Health Concerns of the Zika Virus, Texas Tech School of Law Journal of Biosecurity, Biosafety, and Biodefense Law, Lubbock, Texas (April 22, 2016).

Interviewed regarding myths associated with mosquitoes; published in Lubbock Avalanche Journal (4 August 2015)

Interviewed regarding mosquito and West Nile virus acitivity and public health threat; aired on local television channels (FOX, KMAC, KCBD) (1 and 23 July 2015)

Interviewed regarding biological threat research activity and public health threats. Radio, KRFE Radio Morning Show, Lubbock, Texas (19 September 2014)

News Release – Texas Tech University: Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Private Donors Play Key Roles in the Largest Quail Decline Study Ever Undertaken. News Release TTU (27 August 2013)

Interviewed (3:00-3:30PM CT) on West Nile virus epidemic in Dallas-Fort Worth area, and public health threat in Lubbock. TV, KMAC Television, Lubbock, Texas (06 September 2012)

Interviewed (4:00-4:30PM CT) on West Nile virus epidemic in Dallas-Fort Worth area, and public health threat in Lubbock. TV, KCBD Television, Lubbock, Texas (06 September 2012)

News Release – Texas Tech University: Texas Tech Researcher Cites Complacency, Apathy for Recent West Nile Outbreak. News Release TTU (24 August 2012)

Interviewed (1:00-1:30PM CT) on West Nile virus activity and public health threat. TV, KMAC Television, Lubbock, Texas (21 August 2012)

Interviewed (12:00-1:30PM CT) on potential threat of zoonotic disease transmission by feral swine in West Texas. Radio, KRFE Radio, Ag Show. (11 July 2012)

Interviewed (11:00-11:30AM CT) on potential threat and impact of West Nile virus during 2012. TV, FOX 34 Television, Lubbock, Texas (18 May 2012)

Interviewed on ABC World News Tonight (6:30PM ET) regarding extreme weather and influence on vector-borne diseases, particularly WNV. (Nielson Audience = 7,516,961; Calculated Publicity Value = $912,000). TV, ABC World News Tonight. (19 April 2012)

Recorded 10-minute Public Service Announcement entitled “Disease Threats of Fall” at the request of the City of Lubbock Health Department (23 September 2010)

Interviewed and reported results of semi-scientific comparative study of various personal protection products against mosquitoes for a local television station – which was a two segment public health-related educational service. TV, KMAC Television, Lubbock, Texas (July – August 2008)

Subject-matter expert and narrated one-hour training video for medical professionals entitled West Nile Virus: What You Need to Know. HealthNet group at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (August 2004)

Guest on numerous occasions (~15) for the Wade Wilkes Morning Show (7:00-8:30AM CT) discussing research of public interest related to the Zumwalt Countermeasures Program and emerging and resurgent diseases. Radio, KRFE Radio (2003 – 2011).