Announcement of the issuance of the first Tick-Borne Disease Working Group Report to Congress. Published on November 14, 2018. Read the 2018 report here. For full subcommittee reports and other information and ongoing activities of the Working Group visit HHS-TBDWG webpage...
Colorado is also home to Ixodes species that are competent vectors of several human pathogens. Conventionally known as nonhuman biters, this latest article by Xu et al. (2018) demonstrates that some of these nidicolous tick species are found to bite humans more often then previously suspected. What is the risk in Colorado? Only surveillance will tell...
Colorado Ticks PSA. Thank you to 90.5 KCSU student radio in Ft. Collins. [audio mp3="https://coloradoticks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TickAssociation_TickChecking_EG_PSA.mp3"][/audio]...
Governor John Hickenlooper proclaims May 2018 as Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Month in Colorado! Read the full proclamation here....
[caption id="attachment_3838" align="alignleft" width="111"] May 21, 2018, HR 5900 [/caption] May 21, 2018 - Congressman Smith Introduces: National Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Control &Accountability Act of 2018 ...
[caption id="attachment_3835" align="alignleft" width="150"] May 10, 2018, H.RES. 887[/caption] May 10, 2018-US Rep. Faso Introduces House Resolution: May “National Lyme Disease Awareness Month”...
[caption id="attachment_3986" align="alignleft" width="330"] Photo Credit: COTBDAA, Monica White[/caption] CDC releases results of study Vital Signs: Trends in Reported Vectorborne Disease Cases — United States and Territories, 2004–2016. -Disease cases from mosquito, tick, and flea bites tripled in the US from 2004-2016. Diseases cases from ticks alone have doubled in the US from 2004-2016 -Nine new germs spread by mosquitoes and ticks have been discovered or introduced since 2004. Seven of these germs are spread by ticks. -About 80% of vector control organizations lack critical prevention and control capacities. View CDC Vital Signs Release and Download Fact Sheet....
[caption id="attachment_3833" align="alignleft" width="135"] Link to news release May 1, 2018[/caption] CDC-New Release-May 1, 2018 CDC announces that vector-borne disease cases have tripled since 2004. ...
March 31, 2018 Hour 2- President of COTBDAA, Monica White, "Talks Ticks" with Terry Wickstrom Outdoors on 104.3 The Fan. https://tunein.com/radio/Terry-Wickstrom-Outdoors-p380794/?topicId=120651897...
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