Fall is peak activity time for adult blacklegged ticks, increasing the risk of tick bites on both people and pets.
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Is our changing climate making regions of the US more suitable for ticks and mosquitoes that spread diseases? Or is the climate changing human physiology making us more vulnerable?
There is a new type of tick spreading in New Jersey, and it doesn’t need a male to reproduce. It’s known to spread disease and is proving
difficult to eradicate.
The CDC recently announced an uptick in diseases spread by vectors such as mosquitoes and ticks. Here’s why and what you can do to lower your risk.
In Australia, only three infectious diseases are known to be transmitted from ticks to humans: Queensland tick typhus; Flinders Island Spotted Fever; and Q fever.
Tick paralysis affect 10,000 dogs each year in eastern Australia, and the treatment can be very expensive. Fortunately, a new drug available is available.
How a microbe from the ice age could wreck your life – and how to protect yourself.
A government investigation into whether Lyme disease exists in Australia and how to treat it has ended without being able to resolve the issues. But there is a plausible explanation for why people here…
The bacteria responsible for Lyme disease existed millions of years before humans, according to new fossil evidence. Researcher…
Tick bite poses a potentially serious health risk in itself but sometimes the way people try to remove ticks just makes things worse. This is because urban myths and conflicted advice from local and overseas…
The term “vector-borne” refers to the way diseases are passed on from one person to another. Instead of through the air or directly by human contact, these pathogens need to hitch a ride for transmission…
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Emeritus professor, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
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Senior lecturer, Murdoch University
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Parasitology, University of Nottingham
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Richard Malik is a Friend of The Conversation.
Veterinary Internist (Specialist), University of Sydney
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Professor in Bioarchaeology, Head of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University
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Research Fellow, Malaria biochemistry, Monash University
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Professor in Biochemistry, Murdoch University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
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Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant Professor of Entomology, Rutgers University
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Assistant Research Professor of Entomology, Penn State
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Professor of Biology, University of Newcastle
