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news-medical.net — “Summertime, when kids and grown-ups abandon the confines of the indoors and head outside to camp, hike, fish and commune with nature -- and all of her friends. Flies, mosquitoes and ticks are just a few of the critters that go along with summer outdoors, and we all do our best to avoid the biting and stinging insects, but what happens if you are accosted by a tick? What are the myths behind Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases in Texas?.” View full resource at news-medical.net
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Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes - Workshop Report - Institute of Medicine
iom.edu — “A single tick bite can have debilitating consequences. Lyme disease is the most common disease carried by ticks in the United States, and the number of those afflicted is growing steadily. If left untreated, the diseases carried by ticks--"known as tick-borne diseases--"can cause severe pain, fatigue, neurological problems, and other serious health problems. The IOM held a workshop October 11-12, 2010, to examine the state of the science in Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.” View full resource at iom.edu
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Bedbugs Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists - NYTimes.com
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nytimes.com — “Ask experts why bedbugs disappeared for 40 years, why they came back, why they don't spread disease, and you hear one answer: Good question.” View full resource at nytimes.com
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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Colorado tick fever is a viral infection transmitted by the bite of the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni. The disease occurs almost exclusively in the western United States and Canada. A nonspecific febrile illness is the most ...” View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com
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Colorado tick fever is a viral infection transmitted by the bite of the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni. Symptom info. http://bit.ly/aHpavt
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Tick-Borne Diseases, Introduction: eMedicine Emergency Medicine
emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: to Tick-Borne Diseases Ticks are excellent vectors for disease transmission.1 More than 800 species of these obligate blood-sucking creatures inhabit the planet. They are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of human disease, both infectious and ...” View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com
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Babesiosis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine
emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Babesiosis is an intraerythrocytic parasitic infection caused by protozoa of the genus Babesia and transmitted through the bite of the Ixodes tick, the same vector responsible for transmission of Lyme disease. While most cases are tick-borne, ...” View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com
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Babesiosis is a parasitic infection that is caused by a specific type of tick bite. Learn more about babesiosis. http://bit.ly/9bys6n
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