Tag Archives: Lyme

Deer Are Spreading Lyme Ticks in Suburban Backyards

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Sept. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — They look so cute, grazing quietly in your yard. But the overpopulation of white-tailed deer throughout the Northeastern United States may assist unfold Lyme illness and one other tick-borne sickness, anaplasmosis, particularly in suburban areas, a brand new examine suggests. The analysis factors […]

Tick Spraying May Not Guard Against Lyme Disease

April 14, 2022 – Two extensively used and environmentally protected tick management measures might slash the variety of bloodthirsty bugs in your neighborhood, however they gained’t scale back your probabilities of contracting Lyme illness, researchers have discovered. The outcomes of a 4-year examine, which seems within the May 2022 challenge of Emerging Infectious Diseases, confirmed […]

Targeting Ticks and Lyme Disease With Gene Editing

Feb. 23, 2022 — We hear lots in regards to the scourges of mosquitoes as they unfold malaria, dengue fever, Zika, and different diseases, however they’re actually not the one tiny vector on the market spreading illness. Just ask anybody who’s handled Lyme illness. Ticks have lengthy been a serious supply of infectious illness, however […]

What It’s Like to Live with Lyme Disease

Nov. 1, 2021 — From the very first web page of Ross Douthat’s new memoir, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery, it’s simple to really feel such as you’re within the room with The New York Times columnist as he particulars his very painful 5-year battle with continual Lyme illness. Douthat’s journey […]