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Overall climate is more determinate of tick population and daily weather has a subtle effect on the spread of tick-borne disease. Being mindful of daily weather patterns and vigilantly avoiding exposure to ticks reduces human exposure to Lyme disease. [5] Lyme disease number of cases reported by county 2007 Peak summer weather July 2007. Warm ...
Climate change is spurring more cases of tick-borne Lyme disease. FAIR Health's recently announced third study focused on Lyme disease's notable growth in the U.S. over the past 15 years.
Tick populations are spreading into new areas, in part due to climate change. [8] [9] Tick populations are also affected by changes in the populations of their hosts (e.g. deer, cattle, mice, lizards) and those hosts' predators (e.g. foxes). Diversity and availability of hosts and predators can be affected by deforestation and habitat ...
About 63,000 cases of Lyme disease were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2022, according to a report released last month. That’s a nearly 70% jump in the number of ...
Climate change and increasing temperatures will also impact the health of wildlife animals as well. Specifically, climate change will impact wildlife disease, specifically affecting "geographic range and distribution of wildlife diseases, plant and animal phenology, wildlife host-pathogen interactions, and disease patterns in wildlife". [96]
The CDC says Lyme is the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S., caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi or, less commonly, Borrelia mayonii. Humans get it through the bite of infected ...
Richard Simon Ostfeld (born September 25, 1954) is a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He is best known for his work on the ecology of Lyme disease, which he began studying while monitoring the abundance of small mammals in the forests of Cary Institute property in the early 1990s.
Lyme disease is transmitted through the bite of a particular tick, the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus). There are three stages of Lyme disease .