Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How to prevent tick bites this fall

As the weather cools down around the country, more people are taking the opportunity to enjoy outdoor activities. Whether it's camping, hiking or hunting, an infectious diseases expert at Baylor College of Medicine gives ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

13 dead from Congo haemorrhagic fever in Iraq this year

At least 13 people have died in Iraq since the start of the year from a viral tick-borne disease transmitted to humans from livestock, the health ministry said on Saturday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

It's time to think about Lyme disease prevention

"There's no way I have Lyme disease," stated my friend's 70-year-old dad while helping carry my mattress into our new apartment last summer, "I wasn't bitten by a tick—"

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Q&A: How to prevent Lyme disease this summer

The odds of contracting Lyme disease from tick bites during warmer weather months continue to rise. That's due to a series of factors, including changes in climate conducive to maintenance of tick populations over a longer ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Q&A: The case of the missing Lyme vaccine

High summer is here, but many heading to forests and fields reach not for shorts and a T-shirt, but long sleeves, pants, and a shot of bug spray, hoping to keep a threat at bay: the deer ticks that carry Lyme disease.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Data shows Lyme threat in West largely due to Eastern ticks

According to figures compiled by the Laboratory of Medical Zoology (LMZ), a national tick-testing service at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tick submissions from California increased by just under 250 percent from ...

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