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Avoiding Ticks & Lyme Disease: UPMC Susquehanna Medical Director of Infectious Diseases Provides Safety Tips

https://www.weny.com/story/42243624/avoiding-ticks-and-lyme-disease-upmc-susquehanna-medical-director-of-infectious-diseases-provides-safety-tips

Avoiding Ticks and Lyme Disease: UPMC Susquehanna Medical Director of Infectious Diseases Provides Safety Tips

Saturday, June 13th 2020, 12:28 AM EDT by Ryan Campbell
WILLIAMSPORT, P.A. (WENY) – As COVID-19 restrictions across the Twin Tiers continue to ease, many community members are getting back to enjoying the outdoors. However, the region will need to be aware of ticks and Lyme Disease as we move into prime tick season.
According to most recent statistics released by the CDC in 2018, Pennsylvania significantly led the country in confirmed Lyme Disease cases with 7,920. New York had the third most cases with 2,446. WENY News spoke with the Medical Director of Infectious Diseases at UPMC Susquehanna, Dr. Rutul Dalal, and he says this year, people may need to be extra cautious. (See link for article and video)
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**Comment**
Ticks can absolutely walk around and navigate through wood chips.  In fact, wood chips and leaf litter make wonderful humid areas to protect ticks.  I’m not saying don’t use them, just be aware that they will not keep ticks out, but will rather serve as a barrier between riskier areas and non-risky areas but ALL areas are somewhat risky.

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Lyme, Ticks

After Son’s Bout With Lyme Disease, Woman Invents New Tick Repellent

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/after-sons-bout-with-lyme-disease-woman-invents-new-tick-repellent  News Video Here

After son’s bout with Lyme disease, woman invents new tick repellent

Nathan Coleman
Reporter, Atlantic Canada

Friday, June 12th 2020

The formula, called ‘Atlantick’, has been found to be 97.5 per cent effective.

It’s been four years now since Darian Wallet suddenly became unable to move his legs without severe pain in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. It lasted for months, forced him to use a walker, and worst of all, doctors couldn’t determine why. In his words: “It was terrible.”

His mother, Lisa Ali, thought it could be juvenile arthritis, but she pushed to get a test for Lyme disease and her suspicions were right: it was the result of a tick bite. Darian’s brother had it too.

“When you see your child because he’s in that much pain and you don’t know what’s going on, that really kind of wakes your system up and puts you in ‘oh my God, I have to do something about this’ mode,” she says.

(See link for article)

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/01/what-you-need-to-know-about-bug-sprays/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/06/16/study-shows-effectiveness-of-factory-treated-permethrin-impregnated-clothing-works/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/27/study-conforms-permethrin-causes-ticks-to-drop-off-clothing/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/04/03/fire-good-news-for-tick-reduction/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/15/talking-tick-prevention-ask-a-uw-veterinarian/

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Lyme, Prevention, Ticks

Bourbon Virus? New Tick-borne Disease May Be in North Carolina

https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/bourbon-virus-new-tick-borne-disease-may-be-in-north-carolina/article_

Bourbon virus? New tick-borne disease may be in North Carolina

By Kenwyn Caranna kenwyn.caranna@greensboro.com

Category:

Ticks, Transmission, Viruses

Ehrlichiosis Found in Australian Dogs – Can Also Infect Humans

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-03/ehrlichiosis-detected-in-kimberley-dogs/

Exotic tick-borne disease ehrlichiosis detected in WA’s Kimberley region is a first in Australian dogs

Dogs roaming a Kimberley street

An exotic tick-borne disease, never seen before in Australian canines, has been found in a small number of sick dogs tested in Western Australia’s far north Kimberley.

Ehrlichiosis is a bacterial illness transmitted by ticks, particularly common in tropical and sub-tropical regions but this is the first time it has been confirmed in dogs which haven’t been imported from another country.

The affected dogs, in Halls Creek and Kununurra, have been treated by a private veterinarian in the region.

The bacteria, Ehrlichia canis, which causes the disease in dogs, was later confirmed through laboratory testing by the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness. (See link for article)

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/category/ehrlichiosis-treatment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/15/ehrlichiosis-masquerading-as-thrombotic-thrombocytopenia-purpura/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/02/north-carolina-ehrlichia-often-overlooked-when-tick-borne-illness-suspected/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/24/oklahoma-ehrlichiosis-central/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/09/dogs-ehrlichiosis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/28/human-tick-borne-diseases-in-australia/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/21/our-battle-ongoing-lyme-disease-in-australia/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/11/03/ld-not-in-australia-here-we-go-again/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/03/aussie-widow-of-lyme-disease-victim-to-sue-nsw-health/  A SYDNEY woman launches a class action against NSW Health after autopsy results showed her husband was riddled with Lyme in his liver, heart, kidney, and lungs. He was only 44 years old and was bitten by a tick while filming a TV show in Sydney.

 https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/18/study-finds-q-fever-rickettsia-typhus-in-australian-ticks-and-people/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/01/14/python-covered-with-more-than-500-ticks-rescued-in-australia/

 

 

 

 

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Ehrlichiosis, Testing, Ticks

It’s Tick Season Again. Here’s What You Need To Know

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ticks-season-kitchener-waterloo-ontario

It’s tick season again. Here’s what you need to know

An expert in ticks and tick-borne diseases provides information to help you through the season
Desmond Brown · CBC News ·

Fall is the prime season for adult black-legged ticks, says Katie Clow, assistant professor at University of Guelph. (Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)

Many people have spent their spring largely indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But as restrictions ease and certain areas re-open for hiking and camping, people are being reminded to keep an eye out for ticks.

“The most important thing to know is where you’re going to find ticks, so you can avoid that habitat,” Katie Clow, assistant professor at University of Guelph and expert in ticks and tick-borne diseases, told CBC Kitchener-Waterloo.

Black-legged ticks tend to stay inside forested areas, especially in bushy areas.

“They’re pretty lazy, they just sit there and wait for something to come along,” she said.

Clow recommended hikers stay on marked trails away from forested areas. That’s where ticks lie in wait, she said. (See link for articles)

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/21/help-i-got-bit-by-a-tick-what-do-i-do/

 

Category:

Testing, Ticks