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It can be easy to let your guard down in the wilderness as the summer wraps up, but tick season stretches well into the fall! For how to prevent issues with ticks and what you should be looking for, Janet Sperling from the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation joins Candace Daniel.
Learn more about where ticks are in Canada by exploring this interactive tick testing & statistics map. Geneticks created the map from ticks sent in for testing from across the country. Find out what kind of ticks have been found and what pathogens they are carrying. When possible, you should submit a removed tick for…
People have ‘let their guard down’ and aren’t checking for ticks as weather cools, says zoologist Laurenne Schiller loves taking her dog Cousteau for walks along Halifax trails as the weather cools. But even after the first dusting of snow this week, each walk finishes with a head-to-toe check for blacklegged ticks on her…
Scott JD, Anderson JF, Durden LA J Parasitol. 2012 Feb;98(1):49-59. Epub 2011 Aug 24. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864130 Abstract Millions of Lyme disease vector ticks are dispersed annually by songbirds across Canada, but often overlooked as the source of infection. For clarity on vector distribution, we sampled 481 ticks (12 species and 3 undetermined ticks) from 211 songbirds…
John D. Scott, Kerry L. Clark and Lance A. Durden published 20 March 2019 Abstract: Wild birds transport ticks into Canada that harbor a diversity of zoonotic pathogens. However, medical practitioners often question how these zoonotic pathogens are present in their locality. In this study, we provide the first report of an Amblyomma inornatum tick…
Conference part of bill to create national framework for prevention, treatment and awareness Andrew Foote May 15th, 2016 CBC News Canadians living with Lyme disease say they hope a national conference in Ottawa helps fix the many issues they see with the way Canada diagnoses and treats the disease. The three-day conference with politicians,…
Published: August 19, 2015 – DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134812 Abstract Habitat heterogeneity influences pathogen ecology by affecting vector abundance and the reservoir host communities. We investigated spatial patterns of disease risk for two human pathogens in the Borrelia genus–B. burgdorferi and B. miyamotoi–that are transmitted by the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus. We collected ticks (349 nymphs,…
