Health Fusion: Tips for tick season
In this episode of NewsMD s podcast, Health Fusion, Viv Williams talks to a leading tick expert about tick bite prevention. Written By: Vivien Williams | ×
It is tick season. Those little creatures are quite terrifying to some people. Ticks are related to spiders and they carry pathogens that can cause diseases, such as Lyme Disease. So let s talk about what you can do to prevent tick bites.
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says ticks do not jump or fly. Instead, they crawl up the stems of grasses and grab onto animals that walk by. She says avoiding grassy areas is tip No. 1.
Health Fusion: Tips for tick season
In this episode of NewsMD s podcast, Health Fusion, Viv Williams talks to a leading tick expert about tick bite prevention. Written By: Vivien Williams | ×
It is tick season. Those little creatures are quite terrifying to some people. Ticks are related to spiders and they carry pathogens that can cause diseases, such as Lyme Disease. So let s talk about what you can do to prevent tick bites.
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says ticks do not jump or fly. Instead, they crawl up the stems of grasses and grab onto animals that walk by. She says avoiding grassy areas is tip No. 1.
Health Fusion: Tips for tick season
In this episode of NewsMD s podcast, Health Fusion, Viv Williams talks to a leading tick expert about tick bite prevention. Written By: Vivien Williams | ×
It is tick season. Those little creatures are quite terrifying to some people. Ticks are related to spiders and they carry pathogens that can cause diseases, such as Lyme Disease. So let s talk about what you can do to prevent tick bites.
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says ticks do not jump or fly. Instead, they crawl up the stems of grasses and grab onto animals that walk by. She says avoiding grassy areas is tip No. 1.
Variants threaten rollback of Minnesota s COVID restrictions Walz will ease restrictions as cases drop, vaccination rate moves closer to 70%. May 5, 2021 4:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Minnesota has stepped up its genomic sequencing of COVID-19 patient samples to more quickly identify emerging viral variants amid the state s plans to phase out its pandemic restrictions, including the indoor mask mandate.
While Gov. Tim Walz is scheduled Thursday to announce a three-phase plan to eliminate business and social restrictions because of improving case numbers, state health officials said close monitoring of more infectious variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 is needed to prevent any resurgence in pandemic activity. The B.1.1.7 variant found in England largely caused Minnesota s latest wave of infections.