Keeping communities safe as tick populations rise
As any hiker or dog walker can attest, checking for ticks is routine practice after being outdoors at this time of year.
Jun 4, 2025
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Ticks are surging and spreading across the US—here's how to protect yourself
With temperatures rising, people across the country are heading outdoors to garden, hike, swim and revel in the sunshine. But there's a hidden danger in the tall grass and brush—ticks carrying microbes that cause Lyme and ...
Jun 2, 2025
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Study reveals emerging cases of babesiosis in Mid-Atlantic region
A newly published study in the Journal of Medical Entomology provides critical insights into the emergence of babesiosis in the Mid-Atlantic region, documenting human cases and the presence of Babesia microti in local tick ...
Apr 29, 2025
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Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome may be driven by remnants of infection
Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon—a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop Post Treatment Lyme Disease ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Broadleaf plantain and ribwort plantain may help treat chronic Lyme disease
In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would help to heal the skin faster. This practice has been a common way to aid skin recovery for generations. ...
Mar 24, 2025
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Half of adult ticks in the Northeast carry Lyme disease bacteria, study reveals
Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Discovery illuminates how sleeping sickness parasite outsmarts immune response
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals ...
Oct 31, 2024
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Lyme borreliosis: New approach for developing targeted therapy
Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause lasting health problems for patients.
Oct 23, 2024
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Lyme disease early detection could get boost from simpler, faster testing technology
For some unlucky people, time in the great outdoors leads to Lyme disease, an illness causing head, joint and muscle pain, flu-like symptoms, fatigue, and sometimes a rash. Left untreated, those effects can turn debilitating ...
Aug 27, 2024
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Findings suggest few people get sick after bite from ticks infected with Powassan virus
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEWVEC) have published new findings on Powassan virus, an emerging tick-borne illness that can cause life-threatening ...
Jul 25, 2024
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