Ticks Creep Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them – The Wire

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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