{"id":10116,"date":"2025-08-20T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:35:40","slug":"how-tick-data-is-busting-myths-raising-new-concerns-of-lyme-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/20\/how-tick-data-is-busting-myths-raising-new-concerns-of-lyme-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tick Data is Busting Myths, Raising New Concerns of Lyme Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uoguelph.ca\/2025\/08\/how-tick-data-is-busting-myths-raising-new-concerns-of-lyme-disease\/\"><strong>University of Guelph<\/strong>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Encounters with ticks are no longer just a problem for someone trudging through the woods \u2013 they can happen right in your own backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is one of the findings from ongoing research studying tick bites from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmagnottaresearch.com\/\">G. Magnotta Research Lab<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Guelph. Launched in 2022, the study is a long-term initiative to capture as much data as possible about Canadians bitten by deer (blacklegged) ticks, which carry and transmit Lyme disease. It is also highlighting misconceptions about risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tick ranges are expanding across Canada, escalating human-tick encounters, says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DB_xNnDxLLz\/\">Dr. Melanie Wills<\/a>, lab director and professor in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/mcb\/\">Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need to be deep in the forest or brush to be bitten by ticks,\u201d Wills says. Many of the study\u2019s participants reported doing routine activities like gardening or yard work when they encountered a tick.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"LSJCXkOHctQztW\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guelph, Canada Encounters with ticks are no longer just a problem for someone trudging through the woods \u2013 they can happen right in your own backyard. That is one of the findings from ongoing research studying tick bites from the\u00a0G. Magnotta Research Lab\u00a0at the University of Guelph. Launched in 2022, the study is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10117,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions\/10117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}