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info & links on all things tix...

Useful links to external reources about Ticks - from government  to scientific research to good old fashioned common sense
(and everything in between).

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 ​link
article
source
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CDC on Lyme disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
CDC : Map of Lyme disease across the USA
2012 to 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
CDC : Chart of Lyme disease cases, 1996-2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
CDC : Prevention of Lyme Disease  |  Hikers
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
CDC : Pregnancy & Lyme Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
CDC : Lyme Disease  |  working outdoors
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
CDC : Lyme Disease  |  info for parents
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
Indicators of Lyme disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
click here
Tick Identifier Quick start
tickinfo.com
click here
Deer Tick I.D.
the spruce | Lisa Jo Lupo
click here
10 tips to Avoiding Tick Bites
ThoughtCo.
click here
Clinical Infectious diseases | Lyme disease
Oxford Academic
click here
Tick Identifier Chart
University of R.I. , Tick Encounter Resource Center
click here
Summer campers face deadly ticks and mosquitoes
Elizabeth Cohen & John Bonifield, CNN
here click
Tick- and mosquito-borne diseases more than triple, since 2004, in the US
Jacqueline Howard, CNN
click here
Denbighshire mum 'paralysed' after tick bite in garden
BBC.com
click here
What you need to know about ticks
Susan Scutti, CNN
click here
Matt Dawson: I had to have heart surgery after a tick bite
Katie Silver, BBC.com
click here
CDC: Lyme disease more common than we thought
Elizabeth Landau, CNN.com

fast facts:

​In 2015, 95% of confirmed Lyme disease cases were reported from 14 states:
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• Connecticut            • Delaware
• Maine                       • Maryland
• Massachusetts      • Minnesota
• New Hampshire    • New Jersey
• New York                • Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island          • Vermont
• Virginia                    • Wisconsin

These states have areas where infected ticks are common.
Infected ticks can also be found in neighboring states and
​in some areas of Northern California, Oregon and Washington.
Ticks are second as carriers of disease behind mosquitos on the planet


It takes about 24 hours for a tick to
​transmit a disease to its host.
​


Ticks use two main senses to detect a potential host... motion and a very keen sense of smell. - including carbon dioxide emitted as the animal or person exhales at close quarters.
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​Ticks don't jump! or fly... in fact they move pretty slowly - they wait for a close encounter with a host and using long legs to reach out and move from a leaf or blade of grass onto their unsuspecting victim
​Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vectorborne illness in the United States. In 2015, it was the sixth most common Nationally Notifiable disease. 
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
​There are approximately 850 known species of tick. Many capable of transmitting many diseases and toxins including: Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, tick paralysis, bovine anaplasmosis, Q fever, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, relapsing fever,rickettsia parker Rickettsiosis, STARI, Tularemia and Ehrlichia. The Brown Dog tick and American Dog tick being the most common carriers.

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Ticks need to feed only 3 times during a lifecycle and are able to survive from  200 to 550 days between meals depending on the species - that's 1 meal per developmental stage of growth - larval, nymph & adult.


Ticks need to feed only three times during a lifecycle and are able to survive for 200 days between meals.


Ticks become dormant during the winter if they have not found a host- waiting for the warmer Spring  to provide more opportunities.

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