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Tick Talk: Monitoring the Gulf Coast Tick in Pennsylvania
This is the sixth short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2024, about each other's research.
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Q&A: Tick season is starting sooner, and they are showing up in new places
As tick season gets into full swing, we spoke with two experts who study them to learn about the latest in tick research and how to stay protected.
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‘Vector Biology Boot Camp’ empowers disease professionals
Penn State Extension, in partnership with the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases, recently hosted the three-day “Vector Biology Boot Camp” to provide hands-on experience for vector-borne disease professionals in field collection and identification of medically important ticks and mosquitoes in the Northeast.
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The bite stops here: Fighting Lyme disease with prevention
To help the public avoid tick bites, Penn State Extension experts are observing Lyme Disease Awareness Month in May by reminding people about various resources available to aid in protecting themselves, pets, horses and loved ones from Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.
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Lyme disease: Combating tick-borne disease with controlled fire
This is the third of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
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It's tick season: Learn to protect yourself and your animals with free webinars
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lyme disease, caused by a tick-borne pathogen, affects more than 400,000 people each year. To educate the public about tick risk and tick bite prevention for people and their animals, Penn State Extension will offer the spring 2022 “Tick Webinar Series.”
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World’s first gene editing tools for ticks may help decrease tick-borne diseases
Reducing tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, may now be possible thanks to two new gene editing methods developed by researchers at Penn State; the University of Nevada, Reno; and the University of Maryland. The methods could allow scientists to alter parts of the tick genome that are involved in harboring and transmitting pathogens.
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Black bears could play important role in dispersal of pathogen-carrying ticks
The spread of the blacklegged tick, the primary vector for the pathogen that causes Lyme disease, may be facilitated in Pennsylvania by animals that people rarely associate with it — black bears, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Pa. in peak season for number of ticks carrying Lyme disease
While most Lyme disease cases are confirmed in the summer, October and November are when the number of adult ticks carrying Lyme disease is highest and they are most active.