Month: April 2018

How to avoid tick-borne illnesses lurking in your home
FOX 61
HARTFORD — When most think about Lyme disease, they give outdoor tips to protect your body from a tick jumping on you. But did you know, you could be contracting Bartonella directly from within your home? Lyme disease expert Dr. Tania Dempsey MD …
Seward: May is Lyme Disease Awareness MonthAuburn Citizen
Maine natives to serve on federal tick-borne disease task forceBoothbay Register
Staying “ticked off” can spare you more than Lyme diseaseNorth Country Public Radio (blog)
The Pike County Courier –NEagle –Southside Daily
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The Rocky Mountains Have Ticks. Scientists Want To Know What Viruses They're Carrying
KUNC
When it comes to ticks people tend to think of the east coast, where the insects are everywhere and they carry Lyme disease. But we have ticks, too — well into the Rocky Mountains — and they might be carrying their own disease cargo. That's what …

New discovery could help in Lyme disease vaccines testing
Great Falls Tribune
The research team's findings could be used to eventually help verify the effectiveness of any new vaccine for the disease.
New Discovery Could Help in Lyme Disease Vaccines TestingFlathead Beacon

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Preventing tick-borne diseases begins with precautions to reduce the chance of being bitten
High Plains Journal
MDHSS warns that several tick-borne diseases have been reported in Missouri: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, Q-fever, Lyme or Lyme-like disease and the southern tick-associated rash illness. Lyme disease is the most commonly …

Disease-carrying exotic tick invades New Jersey, could spread quickly
Today.com
It means that for the little invaders to migrate and get a toe-hold here would take just one female hitching a ride on a traveler, or traveler's pet, coming from Asia, Australia or New Zealand. Another rather special trait: these ticks don't seem to …
East Asian tick species arrives in US, could carry dangerous virusCBS7 News (press release)

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Tick season is here; Here's some advice to keep yourself safe
MyDaytonDailyNews
Dogs are susceptible to tick bites and tick-borne diseases, Cats are sensitive to a variety of chemicals, so consult a veterinarian first before applying any insect repellents. With the exception of Lyme disease, vaccines are not available for most of …

It's tick season again. Here's how to avoid the disease-carrying pests
Minnesota Public Radio News
The year's heavy snowfall actually helped tick populations by insulating their winter habitat, Jarnefeld said. So how to deal with the pests? Here are Jarnefeld's tips to prevent tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease: • When outdoors, wear light …

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How Can You Prevent Lyme And Other Tick-borne Diseases? – Forbes
Forbes
Think this is how you have to dress to be safe this summer? Not quite. Paul Furst. Plague doctor. More than 300,000 people in the U.S. get Lyme every year, and that is but one of the growing number of tick related diseases we're identifying. As outdoor …
How to protect your dog from tick-borne diseasesBangor Daily News
Watch out for ticks to prevent getting Lyme diseaseDearborn Press and Guide
Ohio Health Department: Tick-borne illnesses on the riseWFMJ
FOX 5 DC –Santa Cruz Sentinel
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Protecting from Bug Borne Diseases
CNYcentral.com
Antibiotics are the usual precaution, Wallace says if you have a bullseye shaped rash around where the tick was, it's a definite for Lyme. It's also important to keep up preventive treatment for dogs, year-round. A vaccine is available, as are collars …

Exotic Tick Species Arrives In Garden State
CBS New York
It's an exotic tick that's never been seen before in the United States. It was first spotted on a sheep in Hunterdon County, and efforts to wipe it out have failed. New Jersey has always been home to different species of ticks – five to be exact. But a …

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Warmer weather means rise of ticks – and reminders to be vigilant
Norwich Bulletin
With warmer temperatures approaching, health officials are urging residents to be aware of ticks, which can cause a host of illnesses, when spending time outdoors. Nymphal deer ticks looking for food sources generally make their appearance in May …

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Hudson Valley journalist's book about Lyme disease treatment controversy debuts
Berkshire Eagle
Pfeiffer says her persona odyssey into the controversies and challenges of tick-borne diseases started in 2012 because in the Hudson Valley, her former newspaper employer, the Poughkeepsie [N.Y.] Journal, realized that nearly everyone's life has been …
Lyme disease on the riseMy Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22

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Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD Serochip) promises to revolutionize the diagnosis of tick-borne disease
ProHealth
A new blood test called the Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD Serochip) promises to revolutionize the diagnosis of tick-borne disease by offering a single test to identify and distinguish between Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme …

Filmmaker, bug expert team up for new documentary film 'Tick Days'
SouthCoastToday.com
A 50-year resident of Cape Cod, Crawford said that countless stories of tick-borne illnesses coming from friends, neighbors and relatives got her interested in making a documentary about the tick–disease epidemic sweeping the Cape and South Coast in …
Lyme disease: 'Public health time bomb' in the Berkshires environmenttheberkshireedge.com
Tick timeThe River Reporter (blog)

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UMD Researcher Uncovers Protein Used to Outsmart the Immune System
ProHealth
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate about 300,000 cases of Lyme disease annually in the United States. However, these cases are largely underestimated and reported due to the attention given to mosquito-transmitted diseases …

Seasonal tips from pet professionals
Martha’s Vineyard Times
Dr. Dunnigan: “Everyone seems to know about the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease, but the most common tick-borne illness bacteria on Martha's Vineyard is a different species in the genus Anaplasma. Martha's Vineyard also has the bacteria that …

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Tick time | The River Reporter
The River Reporter (blog)
Although I'd prefer not to be the bearer of bad news, there's no avoiding the fact that it's tick time in the Upper Delaware River region. My dogs have already had several, and I came home from a 30-minute photo ramble in Pike County recently with four …

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Health departments urge residents to beware of ticks
CT Post
As the weather gets warmer and Connecticut residents start to spend more time outdoors, some officials in Fairfield County are warning about tick-borne diseases. And health departments are urging residents to get educated and be vigilant ahead of May …

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Climate Change Is Causing a Dangerous Uptick in Cases of Lyme Disease
Pacific Standard
After reading Mary Beth Pfeiffer's engrossing new book, Lyme, you will probably want to kill any tick you can find, donate to Lyme research, and find out if you are at risk for tick-borne diseases. Spoiler alert: Your risk is likely increasing. Ticks …
Tick tick boom: Lyme's disease cases increase fourfold in 20 yearsDutchNews.nl

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Tick-borne diseases reach epidemic levels, panel says
Medical Xpress
Tick-borne infections have reached epidemic proportions on Long Island, where children are disproportionately affected by Lyme disease and other infections transmitted by the eight-legged creatures, a panel of top scientists …

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Marred Expectations
ProHealth
World re-known Lyme and tick-borne disease expert, Dr Richard Horowitz writes, in his 2013 book, “Why Can't I Get Better?” about diagnosing, treating and healing Lyme, and peeling away the layers that lead to chronic disease. Practicing in Hudson …

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New state budget includes more Lyme disease research funding
WatertownDailyTimes.com
ALBANY — State Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, announced Friday that the 2018-19 state budget would include significantly more funding for Lyme disease research. Sen. Ritchie is a member of the Senate's Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne …

PETS: Beware of Lyme disease as we move into spring
Red Bluff Daily News
If you are like me and have ever felt or seen a tick crawling on you or your dog or, worse yet, had to extract its stubborn little body from either one of you, I am betting you probably despise these little blood-sucking rascals. They are nasty, ugly …

Tick fears: Separating fact from fiction | WTVC
WTVC
Turkey hunting season is in full swing. It's also time to do yard work and gardening, not to mention hiking area trails and other outdoor activities. In other words, it is that time of year when people are far more likely to encounter ticks – those …
Pet Wise: What pet owners need to know about ticks and Lyme diseaseCarroll County Times

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Dr. Pimple Popper Removed a "Growth" That Was Actually a Tick
Allure Magazine
"April [through] September are the most active months for ticks! And this reminds me of that patient I had a couple years ago who asked me to just take a quick glance at this 'growth' she had on her side that she noticed the other day…" Lee writes in …

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Disease-Carrying Ticks Widespread Across Alabama
courierjournal
The Lone Star tick is the most common tick in Alabama and can transmit a host of diseases, including the alpha-gal red meat allergy, Southern rash disease (a Lyme-like illness), tick paralysis and spotted fever diseases that are closely related to …

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Tick-borne diseases on the rise on Long Island, SBU panel says …
Newsday
New York has the highest number of confirmed Lyme disease cases nationwide, the CDC says. Suffolk County has been ground zero for it on LI.

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Lyme, tick-borne disease ruined these Dutchess County lives
Poughkeepsie Journal
Lyme, tick-borne disease epicenter in Dutchess infected 12000-plus during past 18 years and hit thousands more across Hudson Valley.

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Stony Brook U. panel: LI tick-borne diseases on the rise
Newsday
Tick-borne diseases have reached epidemic proportions on Long Island as the eight-legged creatures continue to expand their range carrying multiple infectious organisms with them, according to a panel of Stony Brook experts who will discuss their …

The Lyme wars are upon us. We should probably read up on them
Massive
After reading Mary Beth Pfeiffer's engrossing new book, Lyme (out April 17), you will probably want to kill any tick you can find, donate to Lyme research, and find out if you are at risk for tick-borne diseases. Spoiler alert: your risk is likely …
Another option for Lyme disease treatmentTheChronicleHerald.ca

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Binghamton family's battle with Lyme disease ends in deep tragedy
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Niki never had a tick bite that we saw nor a rash. Keara had a strange bite with a large solid oval rash around it when she was 2 years old; her pediatrician misdiagnosed it as a spider bite and she was never treated. Each child began to become ill …

Rattlers and ticks part of spring turkey hunting
Chron.com
Most Texans have heard of Lyme disease, the tick-borne disease triggered by a bacteria — Borrelia burgdorferi — that is transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, almost always a black-legged deer tick. The disease causes flu-like symptoms at …

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The battle to fight Lyme disease continues
The Daily Gazette
"We need to change our approach to everything about Lyme disease, but there are an important group of individuals who are still in power that refuse to believe they were half wrong and will not yield the stage. We need more research. We need better …

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Canandaigua crowd hears lowdown on Lyme
MPNnow.com
CANANDAIGUA — More than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease occur each year, but only a fraction of those get reported to health officials. “Most cases of Lyme are out of sight,” said Dr. Elizabeth Maloney, a Minnesota family physician who addressed …

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Livingston Event: How To Prevent Tick-Borne Lyme Disease
Patch.com
Livingston Event: How To Prevent Tick-Borne Lyme Disease. LIVINGSTON, NJ — The Livingston Health Department will be hosting a Lyme and Tick Borne Diseases Panel on Thursday, May 3, 2018 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.. According to a municipal news release, the …
Bill to Study Link Between Lyme Disease and Mental HealthLansing Star

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Livingston Event: How To Prevent Tick-Borne Lyme Disease – Patch
Patch.com
Livingston Event: How To Prevent Tick-Borne Lyme – Livingston, NJ – The Livingston Health Department will host a Lyme and Tick Borne Diseases Panel on May 3.
Bill to Study Link Between Lyme Disease and Mental HealthLansing Star

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How to avoid and treat tick-borne diseases in Colorado
The Know
COTBDAA provides Coloradans and visitors information they need about ticks and the diseases they carry, how to prevent tick exposure, how to properly manage a tick bite, recognize infection, and how to advocate for proper care. They also provide …
Take note, tick season is upon usTrail Times

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At First Bite
Folio Weekly
Lyme Disease Transmission Happens Quickly. Ticks are by far the most common disease vector in the United States. Dogs can contract Lyme disease when they have prolonged contact with an infected tick. In most cases, it takes 12 to 36 hours for the …

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Drexel to Co-Host Lyme Disease Conference
Drexel Now
To address this gap in knowledge, Drexel University College of Medicine is teaming up with the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) and the PA Lyme Resource Network (PALRN) to host a two-day medical conference April 6 and 7 in …
Hudson Valley journalist explores the human contribution to Lyme diseaseLegislative Gazette
Lack of reliable test impeding efforts to curb Lyme disease: Valley ViewsPoughkeepsie Journal
Researchers zero in on Lyme disease's ability to resurface months after treatmentZME Science

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Newly Isolated Bacterial Protein Opens Door to Novel Treatments for Tick-Borne Diseases
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
A University of Maryland (UMD) scientist has discovered a mechanism by which the bacterium that causes Lyme disease persists in the body and fights early, innate immune responses. Utpal Pal, Ph.D., professor in veterinary medicine, isolated a protein …
Drexel to Co-Host Lyme Disease ConferenceDrexel Now
Lack of reliable test impeding efforts to curb Lyme disease: Valley ViewsPoughkeepsie Journal
Researchers zero in on Lyme disease's ability to resurface months after treatmentZME Science

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UI seeking help with tick research from outdoor workers
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
URBANA — If you work outdoors at least a few days a week, you can help University of Illinois researchers learn more about ticks in the state and the diseases they spread. Anyone signing up for the I-TICK program will be supplied a collection kit …

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How a protein helps bacteria outsmart the human immune system …
Science Daily
New research has uncovered a mechanism by which the bacteria that cause Lyme disease fight innate immune responses, and observed a never-before-seen phenomena demonstrating the bacteria can spring back in the body weeks later. Understanding this type …
Researchers uncover protein used to outsmart the human immune systemMedical Xpress
UMD researcher uncovers protein used to outsmart the human …EurekAlert (press release)

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IDEXX research links tick-borne disease exposure, kidney problems in veterinary patients
dvm360
… has released internal research connecting exposure to the pathogens causing Lyme disease and ehrlichiosis—the positive “blue dot” result—to kidney problems later in life, even in animals that seemed asymptomatic at the time of the screening. “To …

Infected tick bites 2-year-old, puts Livingston in Lyme disease 'red zone'
MLive.com
But a presumed case involving a 2-year-old child has put the county on the map as having a known risk for the disease that's transmitted by blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks. "Livingston County is now officially in the red zone," said Dr …

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Program in Canandaigua to address tick-borne diseases
MPNnow.com
Speaker Dr. Elizabeth Maloney, a family physician and tick-borne diseases expert, will discuss various illnesses, symptoms and prevention. CANANDAIGUA — Lyme and other tick-borne diseases once raised havoc in places far away from the Finger Lakes …

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Tick Bait Boxes | Lyme Disease – Consumer Reports
ConsumerReports.org
Tick bait boxes are meant to help rid your yard of disease-carrying ticks without the use of chemicals. Here's what you need to know before you choose this option.

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