Lyme Ticks have emerged early this season. Protect yourself and your pets with the right products. NEWS PROVIDED BY By The Mercury March 13, 2017 A mild winter and early spring in many parts of the country mean ticks and fleas are beginning to emerge, according to a Kansas State University veterinarian. “The season for [...]
Lyme Statistics are Reaching All Time High Poughkeepsie Journal, Dec. 7, 2016: By John Ferro Andrew Evans remembers when Lyme disease first began to emerge in the local consciousness. In the early 1990s, Evans served as a Dutchess County public health adviser whose job it was to investigate how many cases were afflicting [...]
Although Lyme ticks are more prominent during warmer weather, they still exist even in the colder seasons. We're here with 10 facts that you MUST know. Lyme disease is an infectious disease transmitted to humans from tick bites. Ticks infected with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi cause the disease and are most active from April to [...]
Four summers ago, Carole Flaherty was training for a long-distance hike across the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains. The retired landscape contractor from Healdsburg was routinely walking 25 miles a day -- until strange pains stopped her in her tracks. Fatigue, abdominal aches and a burning sensation on her right side left her bedridden [...]
By ALEXANDRA ZISSU ORIGINAL SOURCE AUGUST 12, 2015 At a recent dinner party in Greenwich, Conn., Topic A was not stock futures or boarding school, but something decidedly less tony: ticks. Jill Kargman, the author, actress and creator of the Bravo show “Odd Mom Out” who was there, said the anxious conversation reflected a growing phobia of [...]
The following call-to-action is from the Oregon Lyme Disease Network, regarding proposed Lyme-related legislation. Oregon Lyme Disease Network— SB916 ** CALL TO ACTION # 4 for the House Committee On Health Care ** INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING YOUR REPRESENTATIVE Feel free to copy the text between the solid lines, using it as the beginning of your [...]
Article Preview: The distribution and abundance of Ixodes scapularis were studied in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and portions of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by inspecting small mammals for ticks and by collecting questing ticks at 138 locations in state parks and natural areas. Environmental data were gathered at a local level (i.e., micro and meso [...]
