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View Post: HHMI News: Tick Saliva: New Target for Lyme Disease Vaccine
19 Nov 2009
When the bacterium that causes Lyme disease is transmitted to a mammal via a tick's bite, the bacterium wraps itself in a protein cloak that makes it invisible to the host's immune system. That cloak is made from a protein found in tick ...
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View Post: Symptoms Of A Tick Bite: Care and Treatment Tips for Lyme
20 Nov 2009 by admin  
A deer tick is about a fourth of the size of a dime and has a black body with a light bluish-gray colored sac. The deer ticks can carry Lyme disease with most symptoms not presenting until 5-10 days after the bite. When the bite has a ...
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View Post: Futurity.org – Stopping Lyme disease with tick saliva
18 Nov 2009 by Helen Dodson-Yale  
The findings may spur development of a new vaccine against infection from Lyme disease, which is spread through tick bites. Traditionally, vaccines have directly targeted specific pathogens. This is the first time that antibodies ...
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View Post: Neurological manifestations of Lyme disease in children
23 Nov 2009 by Linda  
The parents recall the children having a flu-like illness that preceded their developing these rather persistent symptoms and usually that flu-like illness will occur six weeks or more after the tick bite or the exposure to the ticks. ...
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View Post: Watch the ticks, Lyme disease - Jesse's Hunting & Outdoors Forum
12 Nov 2009 by spectr17  
This weeks WON paper had a pic of a nice buck and the hunter said he found a tick on his back. He got checked and had Lyme disease. I've been tested twice out here in CA for Lyme. If you get a tick bite kill the tick and tape it to some ...
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View Post: On the Trail of a Vaccine for Lyme Disease: Yale Researchers ...
18 Nov 2009
The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection from Lyme disease, which is spread through tick bites. Traditionally, vaccines have directly targeted ...
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View Post: Preventing Ticks: Made Easy
25 Nov 2009 by EcoSMART Kara  
Ticks can transmit a variety of contagious diseases, such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted fever to name a few of the most common and serious. ... If you know you are entering a possibly infested area there are simple steps and facts (like the fact that most ticks attach on the lower leg then crawl up) that are useful in preventing a tick bite. Before you venture outdoors: Wear light colored clothing to make it easier to spot ticks crawling on the body. ...
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View Post: Tick Saliva: New Target for Lyme Disease Vaccine
23 Nov 2009 by targethealth  
Named after the town in Connecticut where a cluster of cases was described in the 1970s, Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to humans through tick bites. “I thought to myself that it was a vector-borne disease, ...
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