To Avoid Ticks, How You Rake Your Leaves Is Very Important
Raking leaves out to the yard edge may increase tick numbers there. If you cleared fallen leaves from your lawn last fall, did you deposit…
Ticks
Not Just Lyme Disease: Study Finds Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook…
Emerging Tick-Borne Disease Far Larger Than Previously Believed
Human cases of Borrelia miyamotoi, a tick-borne infection with some similarities to Lyme disease, were discovered in the eastern United States less than a decade…
New Combination Therapy Cures Tick-Borne Illness in Mice
Yale researchers have developed a new therapy that cures the emerging infectious disease, babesiosis, which is transmitted by the same ticks that transmit the agents…
Tick-Borne Infection Borrelia Miyamotoi Discovered in the United States
Similar to Lyme disease, a new tick-borne infection known as Borrelia miyamotoi has been discovered in people in the United States. A new tick-borne infection…
Haemaphysalis Flava Hardy Enough to Survive Vacuum and Electron Beam
Haemaphysalis flava , a kind of tick, was observed under the intense rays of an electron scanning microscope and survived the experience. They may have…
Ticks, Lyme Disease and Public Health
Durand Fish, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses ticks and the associated health…