Hector Valtierra is a professor of microbiology, general biology, cell & molecular biology, public health, and genetics at colleges around San Diego County. He has taught these subjects at the community college- and university-level in Louisiana, Maryland, and Virginia. He was a recipient of the Ferguson Emerging Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and the National Biosafety Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He has an earned Masters of Public Health degree at Tulane University emphasizing in Trop...