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Infestation can occur in California : What to know about the tick time-bomb
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Hunter Cornick s duct tape method caught 27 ticks. Courtesy of Hunter Cornick
The Weather Channel recently announced that most of the U.S. will be a “a tick time-bomb” in 2021, and displayed a map showing that in California, the threat ticks pose this year is slightly above average. And despite the drought which would normally be a deterrent for ticks scientists are noticing more of those bloodsuckers on the coast than ever.
To better understand how weather patterns this year might affect tick season in California, SFGATE spoke with Colorado State University tick researcher Daniel Salkeld, who sits on the board of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation and authored a recent and terrifying study concerning suitable tick habitats in California.
2021 May Be Big Lyme Disease Year medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
âTicks Surprise Us:â 2021 May Be Big Lyme Disease Year
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, 2021 Planning to hit the beach this summer? You might want to throw some bug spray into that beach bag along with your sunscreen.
For the first time, Lyme disease-carrying ticks typically associated with woodlands in New England and other forested regions of the U.S. have been found in abundance near beaches in Northern California, new research shows.
Daniel Salkeld, PhD, a Colorado State University research scientist who led the new study, said the findings surprised even his own team, which did not expect to discover ticks infected with Lyme disease-causing bacteria on the shoreline.
Weekend reads: How introverts and extroverts are thinking about post-pandemic life
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A (horrifying) new study finds heaps of disease-carrying ticks living everywhere from the woods to the beach, experts warn that Mount Everest is poised to become a super-spreader event, and more.
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New York Times in a video interviewed people from around the world and showed them how the American health system works, which evoked feelings of [a]stonishment, horror, anger, and disgust.
The Atlantic s Julie Beck interviewed two of her colleagues, Amanda Mull, who is an extrovert, and Katherine Wu, who is an introvert. Over the course of the interview, Beck learns about what Mull and Wu are looking forward to in post-Covid life, and how we can all be more understanding to friends who may not be as extroverted or introverted as us.