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Tick’d Off
Original Air Date: Friday, May 31, 2013
Alberta’s tick surveillance program is gathering data on just how many ticks we’ve got in Alberta and how many of them are carrying lyme disease.
We talk to Susan McInnis, from the Lyme Disease Association of Alberta and Marianne Middelveen, from the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.
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Why don’t they gather data on how many mosquitoes and fleas are passing it on?
Why don’t they gather data on how many people have tested positive for Lyme yet were told they didn’t have it?