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Ticks carrying Lyme disease on the rise in N.B.
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A rise in the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease in southeastern New Brunswick has biologists looking for samples. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection often transmitted by an infected tick and causing muscle pain, heart palpitations and nerve damage. Dr. Vett Lloyd says the provincial norm is for 10 to 15 per cent of…
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In Canada, the tick life-cycle can span up to two years in the natural environment, and are infectious year-round once they become carriers of Borrelia.
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Experts expect bad year for ticks as disease-carrying bugs expand range in Canada
Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press HALIFAX — The prevalence of ticks that can carry Lyme disease is expected to be higher than ever in much of Canada this year, researchers say. Vett Lloyd, a researcher and director of the Lloyd Tick Lab at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, says that as the impacts of…
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