The Best —and Worst—Ways to Remove a Tick From Your Skin
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Source: TIME: Health - May 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amanda MacMillan / Health.com Tags: Uncategorized healthytime onetime public health Source Type: news
Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever: Introduction
World Health Organization. 04/11/2018 This one-hour course provides an introduction to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a widespread disease caused by a tick-borne virus that can result in severe viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. Participants will learn to describe signs, symptoms, and transmission of CCHF; list four prevention and control measures; and describe areas where CCHF is a public health concern. (Video or Multimedia) Site requires free registration. (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 10, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Massachussetts Public Health Department, UMass Amherst lab receives CDC funds for tick testing
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) For years, TickReport at UMass Amherst has tracked the incidence and spread of Lyme disease and the introduction of new bacterial and viral tick-borne illnesses such as the Borrelia miyamotoi and Powassan virus in the state. Now a new $100,000 grant from the CDC to the state's public health department will subsidize the cost of tick testing for Massachusetts residents. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Lyme Disease Is On The Rise Again. Here's How To Prevent It
The tick-borne illness is spreading north and south — about 300,000 U.S. cases a year. As scientists work on better diagnostic tests and surveillance tools, you can take steps to cut your risk.(Image credit: Kenneth H Thomas/Science Source/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - May 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Allison Aubrey Source Type: news
Zimbabwe:Disease, Forex Shortage Cripple Dairy Farmers
[Zimbabwe Independent] Dairy production in the first quarter of 2018 has been hampered by the shortage of foreign currency and the prevalence of tick -borne diseases, businessdigest has learnt. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 4, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Mosquito- And Tick-Borne Diseases Have Tripled, But The CDC Won't Say It's Climate Change
We're totally unprepared to address what comes next. (Source: Science - The Huffington Post)
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 3, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: news
Concerns Over Tick, Mosquito-Borne Diseases Rise After CDC Report
BOSTON (CBS) — A Center for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.) report is raising concerns. From 2004-2016 the amount of tick, mosquito, and flea-transmitted diseases have tripled in the U.S.
Nearly 60% of the diseases detected came from ticks. Dr. David Crandell, clinical co-director for the Dean Center Tick-Borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, says he’s not surprised. Dr. Crandell believes an increase in Lyme disease diagnosis comes from better testing and more importantly, a better understanding of the disease and the signs.
He says symptoms include: Malaise, almost like a flu-like symptom, pe...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local CDC Gary Brode Local TV Mosquitoes tick-borne disease ticks Source Type: news
Chef struggles with red meat allergy caused by ticks
Tick-borne illnesses are on the rise, and one unusual condition caused by lone star ticks results in a severe allergy to eating red meat. CBS News' Kenneth Craig has details. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - May 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CDC: Dramatic Jump in Vector-Borne Disease from 2004-2016 (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Tick-borne illnesses more than doubled, mainly due to increases in Lyme disease (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - May 1, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Diseases From Tick, Mosquito & Flea Bites Have Tripled In US, CDC Says
ATLANTA (CBS) – As the weather warms up and New Englanders prepare to enjoy the outdoors, the Centers for Disease Control is warning that illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites are on the rise.
The report released by the CDC on Tuesday said there were 96,075 disease cases from the three in 2016. That’s more than triple the number of cases in 2004.
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“Zika, West Nile, Lyme, and chikungunya—a growing list of diseases caused by the bite of an infected mosquito, tick, or flea—have confronted the U.S. in recent years, making a lot of people sick,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said in a st...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Mosquitoes ticks Source Type: news
Diseases Spread By Insects Have More Than Tripled, CDC Says
In the United States, diseases spread by mosquito, flea and tick bites tripled from 2004 to 2016, federal health officials say in a new report. During that time, there were more than 640,000 cases of vector-borne diseases.
“People really do need to take this seriously,” says Dr. Lyle Petersen, the director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The new study—published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report—marks the first time the agency has collectively e...
Source: TIME: Health - May 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alexandra Sifferlin Tags: Uncategorized healthytime public health Source Type: news
How Can You Prevent Lyme And Other Tick-borne Diseases?
Wondering how to protect yourself outside from ticks this year? Here ' s what you need to know. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - April 24, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Judy Stone, Contributor Source Type: news
Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
May 10, 2018 8:30am-6:30pm ET. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - April 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
UMD researcher uncovers protein used to outsmart the human immune system
(University of Maryland) A UMD researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the bacteria that causes Lyme disease fights innate immune responses, and observed a never-before-seen phenomena demonstrating the bacteria can spring back in the body weeks later. Understanding this bacteria, one of only a few pathogens that can actually persist in the body for long periods of time, has major implications for treatment of tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease, an increasingly chronic and prevalent public health issue. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - April 2, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
