Starting in January, the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit will stop accepting ticks from people trying to identify if they're at risk for Lyme disease. Robert A-Muhong, the health unit's ...
(U.S. CDC/The Canadian Press) Starting in January, the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit will stop accepting ticks from people trying to identify if they're at risk for Lyme disease.
Oct. 8, 2024 — Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022 and four in 10 patients were found to be co ...
Lyme disease is one of the most prevalent insect-borne diseases in the country, with far more cases each year than other diseases carried by mosquitoes, fleas and ticks, such as the West Nile virus.