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Toronto Star: Pet owners help university track ticks through new online tool
Pathobiology professor Scott Weese, who developed the Tick Tracker, says the data could serve as an “early warning system.” By Isabel Teotonio August 7th, 2017 When Ellen Holmes takes her two cocker spaniels for a walk on her 40-hectare property — a pooch paradise made up of ponds, trails and thick brush — they always return home with unwelcome guests: Continues →
Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding into Michigan; human cases up 5-fold
Feb. 23, 2017 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press They’re already back. All it took was an unusual February warm spell this past week for the tiny insects causing an increasingly big problem in Michigan to become active once again, beginning their hunt for blood. “A student in the medical entomology lab just brought in six adult blacklegged ticks — three male and Continues →
Diagnosing Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Horses is Difficult
By Courtesy University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Aug 5, 2015 Most horses in the Mid-Atlantic region show evidence of exposure toBorrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The majority of exposed horses do not develop clinical signs of disease. However, a small number of infected horses will develop disease of the nervous system, termed Lyme neuroborreliosis. Diagnosis Continues →
Doctors concerned, cases of Lyme disease increase in Ontario
Daksha Rangan The Weather Network Saturday, July 25, 2015, 3:28 PM – Eastern Ontario has seen a surge in cases of Lyme disease over the past few years. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks infected with borrelia bacteria. Woodland animals like white-footed mice, raccoons, skunks, foxes, or deer pick up the bacteria, and ticks contract it by Continues →
How to Protect Horses From Lyme Disease
By Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc June 17, 2015 The Horse magazine Spring has sprung … and so have the ticks. With some of those ticks comes the risk of your horse contracting Lyme disease, an infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme disease is transmitted mainly viaIxodes ticks, which pass the bacteria from infected animals to uninfected animals during Continues →
CHCH TV Hamilton, Canada – Protecting your pet from Lyme Disease
June 2nd, 2014 CHCH TV Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Protecting your pet from Lyme disease is often not discussed enough. Watch TV segment
Ontario: Chatham – Kent area health units seeing increase in tick submissions
By Ellwood Shreve, Chatham Daily News Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:38:48 EDT PM Chatham-Kent has seen an increase in reported human cases of Lyme disease, compared to other areas in the region. There has been four confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Chatham-Kent so far this year with another case still under investigation. This is up from two confirmed cases in Continues →
What are the Top Ten Dog Diseases?
Dog Diseases number in the scores, just as in humans. But, veterinarians tend to see some much more than others. Sadly, a great deal of grief could be avoided if more dog owners were careful to see that their pets are immunized regularly against preventable dog diseases.
Vaccinate pets against Lyme disease: vets
Veterinarians are recommending that pets be vaccinated against the deer tick because the number of pests carrying Lyme disease is on the rise in southeastern New Brunswick.
Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia canis and Dirofilaria immitis among dogs in Canada.
In Canada, the environmental suitability for Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum vectors, Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus, appears to be growing. In 1991, there was one known endemic location for I. scapularis while currently there are at least eleven. An estimated 8–12% of the 50–175 million adventitious I. scapularis ticks that enter Canada on birds are positive for B. burgdorferi.
Lyme disease may cause sudden aggression in dogs
A Young (~2 years) Lab mix, male, came into our program with a “questionable” background. He may have been aggressive toward some children, maybe not.
Global warming may spread tick-borne disease
The brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) rarely bites people, far preferring the taste of dog. But global warming could be changing that, exposing people to dangerous diseases as a result.