{"id":9356,"date":"2025-04-30T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:01:17","slug":"ticks-pose-an-increasing-health-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/30\/ticks-pose-an-increasing-health-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticks Pose an Increasing Health Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2025\/tickborne-diseases-in-the-us\">Johns Hopkins<\/a> With no vaccines yet and limited treatment options, avoiding tick bites is our best bet in reducing the risk of tickborne illnesses. The vast majority of vector-borne diseases in the U.S. are caused by ticks and the viruses, bacteria, and parasites they carry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2019-2022, all 50 states and Washington, D.C. reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ticks\/data-research\/facts-stats\/geographic-distribution-of-tickborne-disease-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"cases of tickborne diseases, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cases of tickborne diseases<\/a>. Lyme disease is the most common, but there are a dozen or so lesser-known tickborne illnesses that are on the rise. In an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu\/887-its-tick-season\">April 28 episode<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/podcast\">Public Health On Call<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/faculty\/4363\/nicole-baumgarth\">Nicole Baumgarth<\/a>, DVM, PhD, spoke with Stephanie Desmon all about ticks and the diseases they can cause, progress towards vaccines, and how climate change is increasing where and when ticks can thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baumgarth, a professor in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/departments\/molecular-microbiology-and-immunology\">Molecular Microbiology and Immunology<\/a>\u00a0and director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/lyme-and-tickborne-diseases-institute\">Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute<\/a>, explains that because we don\u2019t yet have vaccines and treatment options are limited, awareness and individual prevention strategies remain our greatest assets for reducing risks of tickborne illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2025\/tickborne-diseases-in-the-us\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"bXcewIPi GAcBGWGItWj  \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins With no vaccines yet and limited treatment options, avoiding tick bites is our best bet in reducing the risk of tickborne illnesses. The vast majority of vector-borne diseases in the U.S. are caused by ticks and the viruses, bacteria, and parasites they carry. Between 2019-2022, all 50 states and Washington, D.C. reported&nbsp;cases of [&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-9356","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\/9356","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=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}