Ep. 8 Get ready for a bad tick season
It's tick season and it's going to be a bad one according to Joellen Lampman, with the Cornell Cooperative. She works for the New York State Integrated Pest Management program. She discusses how she knew this was going to be a bad year for ticks two years ago.
Also Dr. Melissa Deimling, a board certified pediatrician at Community Care Pediatrics in Latham discusses Lyme disease, treatment, when you need to call your doctor if you find a tick, and has advice on what parents can do to help keep their children safe from ticks.
Links mentioned:
Community Engaged Tick and Tick-borne Disease Surveillance project
Upstate Tick Testing Laboratory (nyticks.org)
REMINDER: According to Joellen, this tick testing program is meant only for academic / research purposes, and should not be considered as a diagnostic tool or as a basis on which to make health care decisions. All ticks in this program are tested for pathogen-specific nucleic acids via real-time PCR. A tick that tests positive for a pathogen does not confirm that the bitten human or animal was exposed to the pathogen.
Ticks | New York State Integrated Pest Management (cornell.edu)
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