Category: Tick Bourne Diseases
Scientists Crack Genome of Soft Tick That Threatens Pigs and People
Pork Business Not only is the Ornithodoros turicata tick a potential vector of the ASF virus, but it also carries human relapsing fever, a severe bacterial infection. Scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Baylor College of Medicine have mapped the DNA of a tick that can spread African swine fever (ASF), a deadly disease in pigs. Not only is the Ornithodoros […]
Jul 23, 2025
Why are tick bites sending so many people to the emergency room this summer?
NBC News While working as a youth camp doctor in upstate New York earlier this summer, Dr. Matt Harris noticed he was removing a dozen ticks from campers each day, more than in years prior. Harris, an emergency medicine doctor at Northwell Medicine, said summer camp isn’t the only place seeing a surge of tick bites: […]
Jul 23, 2025
Why are tick bites sending so many people to the emergency room this summer?
NBC Tick-related hospital visits reached their peak in May, the highest since 2019. While working as a youth camp doctor in upstate New York earlier this summer, Dr. Matt Harris noticed he was removing a dozen ticks from campers each day, more than in years prior. Harris, an emergency medicine doctor at Northwell Medicine, said […]
Jul 23, 2025
What affects the transmission of tick-borne pathogens?
DVM 360 “How long does [a] tick have to feed to transmit an infection?” Susan E. Little, DVM, PhD, DACVM, Krull-Ewing professor of parasitology at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, posed to her audience during a lecture at the 2025 American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Convention in Washington, […]
Jul 23, 2025
‘Ticks EVERYWHERE?’: Sightings and bites in the D.C. region heighten worries
Washington Post Tick-related emergency room visits are at the highest since 2019, CDC data shows. The Northeast region has seen the most this summer. Michael Raupp is used to pulling bugs off his body. As an entomology professor and author of a blog that introduces readers to a bug a week, the 73-year-old spends a […]
Jul 16, 2025
ER visits for tick bites near record levels this summer across US
ABC News Emergency rooms across the country are seeing a spike in tick bite cases, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. July has already seen the highest number of tick-related ER visits since 2017, with the Northeast region reporting the most cases, the CDC said. Young children and elderly […]
Jul 8, 2025
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
The Guardian Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them. Blood-sucking ticks that trigger a bizarre allergy to meat in the people they bite are exploding in number and spreading across the US, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half of […]
Jul 2, 2025
Rare tick-borne virus kills 1, hospitalizes 2 in Wisconsin
Michigan Live Powassan virus is rare, but incidents of it are on an upswing, health officials said. That could be due to more people being infected, better testing, or a combination of the two. Black-legged (deer) ticks contract the disease from infected animals and then can pass it to humans when they latch on, the […]
Jul 2, 2025
Veterinarian dies from tick-borne disease after treating infected cats in west Japan
Mainichi A veterinarian in Mie Prefecture who treated cats infected with an ixodid tick-borne disease has died from the same illness, the local veterinarians’ association told the Mainichi Shimbun on June 13. The veterinarian is believed to have contracted “severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)” from one of the cats, prompting the Japan Veterinary Medical […]
Jun 18, 2025
The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
NYT As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health. Lately, Shannon LaDeau and her colleagues have had unwelcome visitors at their office in New York’s Hudson Valley: ticks, crawling up the building and trying to get through doors. “Which is kind of alarming,” said Dr. LaDeau, a disease […]
Jun 18, 2025