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Lyme-Disease Isn't the only Tick-Borne Threat. Doctors Warn These Other ...
- Brock University researchers are monitoring rising blacklegged tick populations across Niagara and Ontario to test them for disease pathogens.
- A 2009 study found blacklegged ticks present at only a small number of locations across Ontario, but recent research shows their populations have grown dramatically since then.
- The team collects ticks in six Niagara locations, focusing on Ixodes scapularis, which can transmit Lyme disease and other serious infections.
- Nick Benton highlighted that prompt removal of a tick is crucial since the chance of it passing infections into your bloodstream increases the longer it remains attached.
- Their findings will inform communities of tick-borne risks and support public health efforts amid expanding tick habitats driven by climate change.
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Researchers raise red flag that doctors may be underprepared for devastating new disease emerging in US: 'We want to give the early warning'
Babesiosis, a disease typically spread by blacklegged ticks, is on the rise in the mid-Atlantic, causing concern among researchers who fear doctors are unprepared for a rise in cases. What's happening? Babesiosis is a malaria-like disease that is more commonly found in the Northeast and upper Midwest of the United States. However, researchers found that the disease is spreading in the mid-Atlantic states, including Virginia, Maryland, and Delaw…
Anyone who finds a red circle on the body after a tick bite should be aware: because one in four ticks in Austria is infected with Borrelia and can pass it on to humans. To date, there is no active prevention against a Lyme disease. However, this could soon change. Small, black crab animals with eight legs, only about two to four millimeters in size, lurking in native forests and meadows: the ticks. Austria is a risk country, Styria and Carinthi…
What to know about longhorned tick_ its spread in Staunton area
Are you risking Lyme disease? Here's how to remove ticks Are you removing ticks correctly? Here's everything you need to know about ticks and how you can combat Lyme disease. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY The invasive longhorned tick has been found carrying a bacteria that can cause a deadly disease in humans in Connecticut. The insect is spreading rapidly through Virginia.The tick can transmit various pathogens, including one that has caused cattle …
Lyme-disease isn't the only tick-borne threat. Doctors warn these other diseases are spreading
(NEXSTAR) – You've likely heard public health officials' repeated pleas to check yourself, your kids and your pets for tick bites, which can spread serious diseases. While Lyme disease gets the most attention – and affects the most people – there are other tick-borne bacteria and diseases that have also been found spreading in the U.S. Just last month, Connecticut researchers said they identified the first case of a longhorned tick infected with…
Madrid warns of potentially deadly tick bites
With soaring temperatures and summer quickly approaching, so too approach the summertime pests: all different kinds of insect species are already out and about in Spain, including the irritating mosquito. But the community of Madrid has sent out an official warning about another blood-sucking bother: the tick. Ticks (which are not an insect but actually an arachnid as they have eight legs… Source
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