New Milford man dies of tick-borne illness in Connecticut
Michael Yoder, 55, died of liver and kidney failure after contracting babesiosis from a tick bite, according to the state's medical examiner. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Babesiosis Surveillance -- Wisconsin, 2001-2015 Babesiosis Surveillance -- Wisconsin, 2001-2015
Is the tickborne disease babesiosis on the rise in the upper Midwest?Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
It ’ s High Time for Ticks, Which Are Spreading Diseases Farther
The disease-carrying blood suckers are spreading more pathogens and putting more Americans at risk, even for more rare illnesses. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - July 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ANERI PATTANI Tags: Ticks (Insects) Lyme Disease Babesiosis Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Southampton Hospital Long Island (NY) Southampton (NY) Westchester County (NY) Source Type: news
Babesiosis Surveillance — Wisconsin, 2001–2015
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - July 6, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
This Could Be The Worst Tick Season In Years. Here's What You Need To Know.
Tick season is upon us, and it’s shaping up to be a real doozy. Scientists predict 2017 will bear the highest number of ticks in recent years, with a jump in reported cases of tick-borne illnesses in some regions of the U.S.
Ticks are thriving thanks to a recent explosion of the white-footed mice population, which carry Lyme disease, Powassan virus and other tick-borne illnesses. Meanwhile, warmer winters caused by climate change are allowing ticks to remain active longer and carry diseases into new regions of the U.S.
Experts suggest people living in regions where these diseases are most prevalent ― the North...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 5, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Scientists uncover details on the rise of a tick-borne disease on Long Island
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health report elevated levels of a pathogen responsible for the tick-borne disease babesiosis in Suffolk County, New York, where rates are the highest in the state. Results are published in the journal mSphere. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - April 20, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
UMass Amherst tick testing lab joins national ecology tracking project
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) The LMZ at UMass Amherst earned a two-year, renewable contract for up to $112,000 per year to test several thousand ticks for six bacterial and one protozoan pathogen using DNA-based assays. UMass Amherst microbiology professor and LMZ director Stephen Rich says these tests will detect the pathogens that cause Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis, among others. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - April 10, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Postbabesiosis Hemolytic Anemia: Asplenic Patients at Risk Postbabesiosis Hemolytic Anemia: Asplenic Patients at Risk
Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia occurred in 7% of patients treated for babesiosis at one center; they comprised a third of all asplenic patients treated.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Exploring a New Complication from an Emergent Tickborne Parasite
Investigating cases of warm-antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia (WAHA) in patients after treatments for babesiosis (Source: BWH for Journalists)
Source: BWH for Journalists - March 9, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Exploring a new complication from an emergent tickborne parasite
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Sporadic cases of warm-antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia (WAHA) have been observed in patients after treatments for babesiosis. Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital present six cases of WAHA after babesiosis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 8, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Researchers Unravel How Ticks Protect Themselves from Lyme Disease Bacteria and Other Microbes
Everyone agrees that ticks are exceedingly nasty creatures. For hundreds of millions of years, they have survived on Earth by sucking blood from their victims for days, often leaving behind terrible diseases as a thank-you note. In humans, these diseases include many unpleasant and dangerous illnesses, such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, babesiosis, Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, and tularemia, to name a few. (Source: University of Maryland School of Medicine News Headlines)
Source: University of Maryland School of Medicine News Headlines - March 6, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Double Test Cuts Odds of Getting Parasite From Blood Transfusion Double Test Cuts Odds of Getting Parasite From Blood Transfusion
An experimental test for the parasite that causes babesiosis was able to prevent the disease from infecting people through blood transfusion, according to a new study of nearly 90,000 U.S. blood donors.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines - December 9, 2016 Category: Pathology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Double test cuts odds of getting parasite from blood transfusion
An experimental test for the parasite that causes babesiosis was able to prevent the disease from infecting people through blood transfusion, according to a new study of nearly 90,000 U.S. blood donors. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Malaria-Like Parasite From Ticks Spreading To U.K. Through Dogs
Mepron, a thick liquid antimicrobial drug used to treat Babesia and malaria, as well as a fungal infection called Pneumocystitis carinii.
In 2011, the United Kingdom stopped requiring that dogs brought into the country be inspected for ticks. Earlier this year, several dogs tested positive for babesia, a malaria-like disease transmitted to ticks that previously had only been found in foreign. These dogs had never left the U.K.
While babesiosis is a new worry to U.K. dog owners, it's been a threat to human beings for years -- it just hasn't become a health-scare-of-the-week like Zika, West Nile, avian and swine flu. Most...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Canine babesiosis outbreak in UK under control, but needs monitoring
Scientists are using the health records of dogs to monitor the status of a potentially fatal tick-borne disease that appears to have been imported into the UK. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 18, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
