Tick Science
Questions, Logic, Ticks, and Lyme Funding Links from Northern Rockies Lyme Disease Coaltion
Following are three of the first articles published on the new Northern Rockies Lyme Disease Coalition website. We are gearing up to launch May 1. The only anticipated on-line fanfare will be photographic (see requests below the article links) and real-life will include presence at the Mayday Project’s IDSA Rallies in Arlington, VA. A CALL FOR INCREASED […]
Deer Ticks Confirmed in North Dakota Carry Lyme Disease and Important Implications for ‘Non-Lyme’ States
Recent findings published in the Journal of Medical Entomology carry critically important implications for Lyme Disease detection in Montana and other states currently not considered Lyme endemic. Although North Dakota was considered to be outside the range of deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis), researchers sampled nine locations in North Dakota and found deer ticks present at six of them, including […]
“Recent” Tick Science From 1909, Revised in 1949 (Then Apparently Forgotten)
Until at least 1949, only soft bodied ticks were considered to carry the spirochetes later learned to be associated with Lyme disease. Later it was found that hard bodied ticks carried them also, but I’m at a loss as to how it was forgotten that they also were carried by soft bodied ticks. For the […]
Invisibly Lyme Montana 