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by Kris Newby, Sept. 2, 2015 Meet Dan Salkeld, PhD, a disease ecologist and friend, shown here looking for ticks on a wood rat from the San Francisco Bay Area. According to Popular Science, he has one of the worst jobs in science: tick collecting. But thanks to the nitpicky... Read More »

From National Geographic, Aug. 31, 2015: by Maryn McKenna I spent most of last week at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, a 1,500-person meeting of epidemiologists, physicians and microbiologists that is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control... Read More »

San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2015 By Victoria Colliver Ticks, those disease-spreading little bloodsuckers, are more prevalent in Bay Area open space and redwood forests than previously thought. A new Stanford study shows the tiny arachnids are found in more diverse... Read More »

Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have introduced the bipartisan Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education and Research Act of 2015 (S. 1503). It may either end up as a stand-alone bill, or it might be included in a larger Senate bill, similar to... Read More »

By Rob Jordan, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment The San Francisco Bay Area’s broad swaths of trail-lined open space hold higher risks of tick-borne disease than previously thought, according to a new study by Stanford researchers. The scientists collected 622... Read More »

Press release: SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Bay Area Lyme Foundation, which is working to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure, highlights a new Bay Area study conducted by researchers from Stanford University and Northern Arizona... Read More »

From Mountain West Connection, Aug. 16, 2015 By Hank Corless Zach Moritz has lost his courageous battle with Lyme disease. The former Boise State basketball player passed away on August 12, 2015 at the age of 27, surrounded by his family and a team of tireless caregivers. He had... Read More »

A horrifying story has been reported by Oklahoma TV station KOCO. A woman who contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever from a tick bite is now a quadruple amputee. Jo Rogers, of Shawnee, became seriously ill after hiking in with her family in the Grand Lake area of Oklahoma. She... Read More »

Annapolis, MD; August 10, 2015 – The Entomological Society of America (ESA) recently released a statement supporting the creation and implementation of a national strategy using Integrated Tick Management to better control tick populations and reduce the rapidly escalating impact... Read More »