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The Piano Man’s War – Mountain Home Magazine
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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 … |
‘Breakthrough’ TBD test may speed up disease screening – vet times
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Ticks Creep Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them
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 …
Reporting Tick Bites to Public Health Agencies Helps ID Risk Areas for Lyme Disease
They also collected human cases and compared active surveillance as a possible predictor of passive tick submissions. The study found that all three methods could signal some risk of a Lyme disease outbreak but that passive surveillance had the strongest …
The Right Way to Remove a Tick
There are many factors that play a role, and outbreaks of diseases like Lyme and Powassan (another tick-borne disease) can vary tremendously from one community to the next. But experts say that overall, the specter of insect-borne diseases is getting worse.
First-ever transgenic ticks to help fight Lyme disease
such as Lyme disease. Gulia-Nuss’ lab works specifically on the deer tick and has received a $407,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to continue studies. “Our focus is to be able to manipulate these ticks in the lab so that we can …