Post by faskew on Jun 8, 2018 8:22:32 GMT -5
Both in the number of infected people AND the number of diseases ticks carry. Large increases every year. Lyme disease is maybe the best known, but doctors miss thousands of cases of that and other tick-borne diseases each year because they aren't looking for them. And there's worse to come. 8-<
Several causes - "warm" line moves further north each year, meaning that spring comes earlier and fall comes later, increasing the tick season. People building new homes on formerly wild land. And so on. All very scary.
From "The Straight Dope".
"Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention welcomed summer by announcing a three-fold increase in the number of people infected with vector-borne diseases — vectors here being ticks, mosquitoes, and their colleagues — between 2004 and 2016, noting that public-health bodies are woefully underprepared for the growing epidemiological menace."
"And while Lyme may be the worst tick-borne offender out there, it may not hold that title for long: meet the Powassan virus, currently still rare but on the rise in the Northeast. Yale epidemiologist Durland Fish wrote recently that Powassan “could surpass Lyme disease in its impact upon public health”: infection leads to encephalitis, causing fatality in 10 percent of cases and permanent brain damage in fully half."
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/9998/do-dogs-have-better-protection-from-ticks-than-people-do/
Don't go into the woods. In fact, don't even go outside. Bunker life can be fun. 8->
Several causes - "warm" line moves further north each year, meaning that spring comes earlier and fall comes later, increasing the tick season. People building new homes on formerly wild land. And so on. All very scary.
From "The Straight Dope".
"Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention welcomed summer by announcing a three-fold increase in the number of people infected with vector-borne diseases — vectors here being ticks, mosquitoes, and their colleagues — between 2004 and 2016, noting that public-health bodies are woefully underprepared for the growing epidemiological menace."
"And while Lyme may be the worst tick-borne offender out there, it may not hold that title for long: meet the Powassan virus, currently still rare but on the rise in the Northeast. Yale epidemiologist Durland Fish wrote recently that Powassan “could surpass Lyme disease in its impact upon public health”: infection leads to encephalitis, causing fatality in 10 percent of cases and permanent brain damage in fully half."
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/9998/do-dogs-have-better-protection-from-ticks-than-people-do/
Don't go into the woods. In fact, don't even go outside. Bunker life can be fun. 8->
