Warmer Canadian summer expected to fuel tick activity and complicate diagnoses
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Liz Scherer
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Environment and Climate Change Canada predicts warmer-than-normal summer temperatures, which combined with above-normal snowpack that protected ticks from cold, is expected to lead to robust tick activity lasting well into fall. The article discusses how clinicians are familiar with Lyme disease from black-legged tick bites, but warns that new tick species emerging in Canada can confound diagnosis and present different health risks.
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· 5 pulledEnvironment and Climate Change Canada is predicting warmer than normal temperatures this summer.
This prediction might be especially good news for the country's tick population.
Most clinicians are quite familiar with identifying and managing the telltale symptoms of Lyme borreliosis, which is caused by black-legged tick bites.
But other tick types and pathogens have started to e...
Experts warn that new tick species in Canada can confound diagnosis.
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