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Bovine babesiosis: FFAR Grant Addresses Cattle Fever Tick Re-Invasion in Texas

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In addition to market volatility threats from the current pandemic, Texas cattle ranchers have been battling another threat: the southern cattle fever tick (Rhipicephalus microplus). This tick can carry...

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Maine reports more than 2,000 Lyme disease cases in 2019

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews  The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received a record number of Lyme disease case reports from health providers in 2019, with 2,079 cases as...

Babesia venatorum reported for the first time in the UK

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Scientists have detected an exotic tick-borne parasite within sheep in the North of Scotland, according to a new study. The research, by scientists at the University of Glasgow’s School of Veterinary...

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‘Polymicrobial infections represent an important aspect of tick-borne diseases’: Researchers

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In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook University and Columbia University, reported on the...

Zimbabwe loses 3,000 cattle to tick-borne diseases

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The Zimbabwean government says farmers have lost more than 3 000 cattle to a wave of tick-borne diseases recorded around the country between November 2017 and May 2018. Department of Veterinary Services...

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Lyme disease, other tickborne infections up in Maine in 2017

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The Maine Centers for Disease Control (Maine CDC) released the end-of-year data for 2017 reportable diseases recently and we find that the three common tickborne diseases–Lyme disease, babesiosis...

Tick-borne diseases in New York: Big increases in the past decade

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We Can Prevent Half of Fatal Infections from Blood Transfusion by Screening for Babesiosis

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Babesiosis is a tickborne protozoan infection of red blood cells which can also be transmitted by blood transfusion.  In the U.S., babesiosis causes about half of fatal infections caused by blood transfusions. Transfusion-transmitted...

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Tickborne diseases: Laboratory diagnosis and treatment

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While most tick bites do not transmit infectious disease, some very serious infections can be contracted from the bite of this vector. There are more than a dozen tickborne diseases in the United States...

Infectious disease ‘pearls’: Treatment and diagnostics

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In his blog, My thoughts on the future of infectious disease and medicine, Infectious disease physician, Steven LaRosa, MD writes in one post of 21 infectious disease “pearls” or teaching...