How To Protect Yourself From Lyme Disease quoting : Tech Times

Though not all ticks carry the same diseases, here are a few pointers to remember in order to protect yourself and your loved ones from Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases such as the more dangerous Powassan virus. Here's What You Need To Know About Lyme DiseaseExperts are expecting this year to experience a particularly bad tick season. A Particularly Bad Tick SeasonThe Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is adamant in preventing the cases of tick-borne diseases every year. Other lesser known tick-borne diseases such as babesiosis and anaplasmosis occur in the same states as Lyme disease, while Rocky Mountain spotted fever mainly occurs in the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. In the case of Lyme disease, the CDC says that the states that are more risk are the ones in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and upper Midwest, with lower risks along the west coast.




"We've seen cases of Lyme disease earlier than we usually do," said Dr. Ben Kruskal, infectious disease chief at Atrius Health in Somerville. Symptoms of Lyme disease can be debilitating, and typically include fatigue, fever, muscle and joint aches. There were 4,518 cases of Lyme disease in Massachusetts last year — up from 4,330 in 2015. Lyme disease is spread when ticks carrying the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi latch onto the body. Showering immediately after coming inside can also prevent Lyme transmission by washing away any ticks before they latch on.

Check for Ticks: Lyme Disease Isn't the Only Thing Spreading This Summer

And unlike their weasel-loving brethren, deer ticks, in addition to their namesake host, have a real taste for human flesh. He's using 20 years worth of data—from weather patterns to rodent and deer populations to habitat changes and disease abundance—to make a Lyme disease risk map of Connecticut. "Deer are always heavily parasitized by the deer tick," says Armstrong. At some point along its manifest destiny tour, Ixodes scapularis, the blacklegged, or deer tick, seems to have picked up POW. They found the prevalence of deer antibodies to the POW virus had increased substantially over a 40 year period.


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