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Seminar on Lyme disease
The Times
SLIPPERY ROCK — The Pennsylvania Lyme Resource Network will conduct a symposium on Lyme disease at 1 p.m. March 24 in the Jennings Educational Center in Slippery Rock. The program, “Dare 2B Tick Aware,” will cover tick-borne diseases, preventing tick …

Pet Talk: Preventing Lyme disease in pets
Bryan-College Station Eagle
We all know that pets are prone to getting fleas and ticks, but did you know that these pesky parasites could transmit dangerous diseases to your pet? Maria Esteve-Gasent, assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical …

Tick season is here; learn how to prevent Lyme disease
Tribune-Review
PA Lyme Resources says there are ways to protect both yourself and your family from Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. These include: • Defend yourself and your property. Spray yourself with tick repellent and pre-treat shoes and clothing …
Ticks Creep Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With ThemThe Wire

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Climate Change Pushes Ticks Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them
Mother Jones
Ticks carried by migratory birds have been raining down on Canada for years. But it's only in the last 10 to 15 years, amid a changing climate and the creation of new habitats in the north, that populations of deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) have been …

Dr. Cynthia Maro: Tick control a year-round effort
The Times
Early treatment of infected dogs can help prevent long-term complications, like kidney failure and arthritis. Ticks transmit many diseases to humans and animals. Lyme disease is just one of many threats. Information about tick-borne diseases, and how …

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After 25 years of symptoms, woman gets Lyme disease diagnosis. Now, she's helping others
SW News Media
After 25 years, she received a diagnosis: Lyme disease. Dr. Elizabeth Maloney, a family physician from Wyoming, MN, and the founder and president of Partnership for Tick-borne diseases Education said around 20 percent of patients with Lyme disease will …

Ticks Creep Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them
The Wire
They have brought with them a variety of tick-borne diseases, the most common of which is Lyme. According to Canada's Lyme surveillance efforts, the number of reported Lyme cases increased more than six-fold from 2009 (144 reported cases) to 2016 (987 …

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'Round the Square for March 9, 2018
Bradford Era
As many readers are aware, instances of Lyme disease, which is carried by deer ticks, have skyrocketed in recent years in the area. May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. According to a press release from the society, the festival is “an event combining …

Tioga County Lyme Disease support group to meet March 15
Corning Leader
The Tioga County Lyme Disease Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. March 15 at the Tokishi Training Center, 124 Nypum Drive, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. The meeting will open with the showing of part two of a three-part video program based on a talk given …

Protect your family against tick-borne illnesses this spring
United States Army (press release)
Spring fever is in the air and as temperatures start to rise, we aren't the only ones coming out of hibernation. Spring also lends itself to the return of ticks and tick-borne illnesses. Ticks can carry several potentially deadly diseases. Two of the …

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The Piano Man's War
Mountain Home Magazine
The state's Lyme Disease Task Force estimates that as many as 70,000 Pennsylvania residents could be affected each year by Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. The CDC estimates that 300,000 new infections occur nationwide each year. “Lyme disease is a …

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'Breakthrough' TBD test may speed up disease screening
vet times
A major breakthrough in the fight against human tick-borne diseases has the potential to speedily and accurately screen for exotic diseases in travelled animals entering the UK. Scientists in the US have successfully developed a unique single blood …

Outdoors calendar for Lancaster County, week beginning March 10
LancasterOnline
Awareness is the first step. Join Tom Smith of Penn State Extension and naturalist Kelsey Frey for an informative discussion about tick-borne diseases, how to prevent tick bites, what to do if bitten by a tick, how to recognize disease symptoms and …

Ticks Creep Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them
Undark Magazine
Of course, diagnosing Lyme is far from foolproof, no matter where the bacterium that causes it, Borrelia burgdorferi, has surfaced. As many Americans already know — particularly those in the tick-infested Northeast — diagnosis of Lyme disease is most …

Ticks lurk when winter air warms
Marietta Times
She said lighter coats attract ticks faster and tickets will even go in warm areas like between toes and inside ears. “Check those areas daily, look on the tops and bottoms of feet and in between the pads,” Kidd added. “And with your kids, check their …

What makes ticks tick?
KOLO
At the University of Nevada, Reno, hand-raised ticks are being coddled. The arachnids are being studied at all different stages from larvae to nymph to adult. With a National Institutes of Health grant, they hope to discover how illnesses like Lyme …

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As spreads, Lyme disease Connecticut lab focuses on diagnostic tools
New Haven Register
They don’t stay in red or white blood cells, as some other tick-borne bacteria do. They move around, pushing through blood cells and into tissue, scientists explained. “The big debate is how long do they live?” Fiedler said. “And, why can’t they be …

Girl paralyzed after potentially deadly tick bite
WSPA.com
FILE – This March 2002 file photo shows a deer tick under a microscope in the entomology lab at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, R.I. The University of Massachusetts Laboratory of Medical Zoology in Amherst is stepping up efforts in …

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Forum targets Lyme disease
Poughkeepsie Journal
Studies suggest that more than 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease annually in the U.S., according to the CDC. “Lyme disease is a critical issue for our country at this point in time,” said Dr. Richard Horowitz, a tick-borne disease …

DEAR LYME WARRIOR…HELP!
ProHealth
Once I was diagnosed with three separate tick-borne diseases, it became even more important to stick to the diet. Yeast and sugar can speed up the reproduction of the tick-borne bacteria and exacerbate inflammation in the body. Eliminating—or at least …

Spring emerges in Alabama bringing snakes, ticks, mosquitoes
AL.com
Mosquitoes, ticks, fire ants and other annoying crawlers survive winters in places much colder than Alabama, and research says it has to stay colder, longer to have a significant impact on their populations. Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses …

Controversies Surrounding the Causes and Management of Persistent Symptoms Related to Lyme Disease
Contagionlive.com
“I saw a gentleman15 years after an erythema migrans who came in with Lyme arthritis,” said Dr. Sigal. “He was very seropositive. If somebody comes in with something that is not clinically likely to be Lyme disease and you have the blood test that's …

Generating first-ever transgenic ticks to help fight tick-borne diseases
Nevada Today
For those who are active hikers, or find themselves outdoors often, the reality of a tick bite is not unusual, nor are its potential consequences. Ticks are known for transmitting many diseases in animals and humans, especially the deer tick, which is …

First Multiplex Test for Tick-Borne Diseases
Technology Networks
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 …

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whas11.com | Shania Twain on the 'Discipline' of Maintaining Her …
WHAS 11.com
Almost 15 years after a tick bite threatened her career and health, Shania Twain is opening up about how she has revamped her lifestyle.The 52-year-old singer contracted Lyme disease, a debilitating tick-borne illness, while on tour in 2003. Author …
Shania Twain says Lyme disease diagnosis prompted lifestyle overhaulGreen Valley News

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Retired Cape doctor named to national panel on tick-borne illness
Cape Cod Times
Sam Donta treated thousands of patients for Lyme disease. FALMOUTH — An infectious-disease specialist from Falmouth with a long history of treating patients with Lyme disease has been appointed to a national subcommittee studying tick-borne illness …
New blood test shows promise to revolutionize diagnosis of tick-borne diseasesNews-Medical.net

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Open Season: Extended bowhunting season will help manage deer population, limit Lyme disease
SouthCoastToday.com
It makes perfect sense and it's very simple to understand. Deer are the main host of deer ticks carrying Lyme disease, babesiosis and anaplasmosis. Scientific research has shown that reducing the number of deer reduces the numbers of deer ticks which …

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Promising to revolutionize diagnosis, a single blood test can now accurately detect if someone is infected with Lyme …
Science Daily
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 …

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First multiplex test for tick-borne diseases: Promising to revolutionize …
Science Daily
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 …
First multiplex test for tick-borne diseasesEurekAlert (press release)

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PA Lyme Announces New Local Support Group in Berks County
bctv.org
About Lyme Disease in PA: Pennsylvania leads the nation in number of cases annually, representing nearly 40% of all cases. Last year, 120,000+ people in PA likely became infected with Lyme disease, based on the CDC statistic that cases are likely 10x …

Study Suggests Expanded Range for Emerging Tick-Borne Disease
Yale News
Human cases of Borrelia miyamotoi, a tick-borne infection with some similarities to Lyme disease, were discovered in the eastern United States less than a decade ago. Now new research led by the Yale School of Public Health strongly suggests that the …

Couple's efforts lead to Lyme disease legislation
Martinsburg Journal
The Eastern Panhandle generates the highest number of tick bite reports in West Virginia. “Chronic Lyme disease produces patients who are the sickest of the sick,” he said. “They have the lowest quality of life of patients, even cancer patients …

Updates to Past Stories
Highlands Current
He said on Feb. 7 that scientists had found “a strong increase in some life stages of the blacklegged tick” in 2017 but that they have not yet analyzed the data, which is being collected as part of a long-term study. “For this coming spring and summer …

Wolf aims for bigger Lyme disease battle in proposed budget …
PennLive.com
A $2.5 million attack on Lyme disease in Pennsylvania, which leads the nation in cases of the tick-borne disease, is included in Gov. Tom's Wolf proposed budget for 2018-19. If approved by the state Legislature later this year, that money would "for …
$2.5 million proposed to help combat Lyme disease – WFMZWFMZ Allentown

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