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Maine CDC Marks Lyme Disease Awareness Month Tuesday, May 11, 2021 4:12 PM The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention urges residents and visitors to focus on tick prevention during May, Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
This year’s Lyme Disease Awareness Month theme is “Stop. Check. Prevent.” The campaign promotes personal prevention measures as the best way to keep from getting a tickborne disease. Deer ticks in Maine can carry the viruses, bacteria and protozoan parasites that cause diseases, including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis and Borrelia miyamotoi disease. These ticks are most commonly found in wooded, leafy and shrubby areas, putting many Mainers at risk every day. Anyone spending time outdoors should take steps to limit their exposure to ticks, which are already active in Maine.
Maine CDC urges focus on tick prevention
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AUGUSTA – The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention urges residents and visitors to focus on tick prevention during May, Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
This year’s awareness month theme is “Stop. Check. Prevent.” The campaign asks people to stop frequently to check for ticks, since personal prevention measures are the best way to keep from getting a tickborne disease. Deer ticks in Maine can carry the germs that cause diseases including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Borrelia miyamotoi disease. These ticks are most commonly found in wooded, leafy, and shrubby areas, putting most Mainers at risk every day. Anyone spending time outdoors should take steps to limit their exposure to ticks.
AUGUSTA – The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) urges the state’s residents and visitors to focus on tick prevention during May, Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
This year’s Lyme Disease Awareness Month theme is “Stop. Check. Prevent.” The campaign asks Maine people to stop frequently to check for ticks because personal prevention measures are the best way to keep from getting a tickborne disease.
Deer ticks in Maine can carry the germs that cause diseases including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and
Borrelia miyamotoi disease.
These ticks are most commonly found in wooded, leafy, and shrubby areas, putting most Mainers at risk every day. Anyone spending time outdoors should take steps to limit their exposure to ticks.
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