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Animal Testing Alternative Has Ticks Trembling At The Knees
November 6, 2006 — Scientists in Switzerland have developed a synthetic cowhide as a replacement for live animals when observing the effects of new anti-tick treatments. Traditional testing methods for these agents ... > full story -
Deer-Free Areas May Be Haven For Ticks, Disease
August 30, 2006 — Excluding deer could be a counterproductive strategy for controlling tick-borne infections, because the absence of deer from small areas may lead to an increase in ticks, rapidly turning the area ... > full story -
Scientists Identify Immune System Trigger For Fighting Lyme Disease
August 22, 2006 — Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) has announced an important finding on Lyme disease that could eventually lead to the development of a new vaccine to prevent ... > full story -
Antioxidants May Protect Against Tick-Borne Illness
August 9, 2006 — For hikers, campers and others who enjoy the outdoors, summer can bring concerns about tick bites and related illnesses such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Researchers are investigating the role ... > full story -
Infectious Disease Experts Offer Advice To Prevent And Treat Lyme Disease
May 25, 2006 — It's tick season, but gardeners, hikers, and others enjoying the great outdoors shouldn't let concerns about Lyme disease keep them inside. A few tips to keep ticks away, and some advice from ... > full story -
A New View On Lyme Disease: Rodents Hold The Key To Annual Risk
May 10, 2006 — A long-term study of tick dynamics simultaneously assesses the impact of multiple ecological variables on Lyme disease risk and strongly implicates a role for rodent hosts and their food ... > full story -
NASA Dis-Assembles And Re-Assembles Tropical Storm Gert
April 26, 2006 — To figure out how something mechanical works, people take it apart and look at its components, then try and put it back together. That's what NASA researchers are doing with hurricanes, to try to ... > full story -
Purdue Project Could Help Pets Serve As Disease Watchdogs
March 28, 2006 — A national surveillance network that uses the medical records of companion animals could help prepare for a wide variety of emerging disease threats to humans and animals, including avian influenza, ... > full story -
Ticks, Flukes, And Genomics: Emerging Pathogens Revealed
February 19, 2006 — Ehrlichiosis is no star of science. This emerging disease has an awkward name, vague flu-like symptoms, and a nasty habit of being caused by bacteria that live inside ticks and flatworms. But in the ... > full story -
How Rickettsial Pathogens Break Into Cells
December 19, 2005 — New research by a team of French and US scientists has identified both the bacterial and the host receptor proteins that enable Rickettsia conorii, the Mediterranean spotted fever pathogen, to enter ... > full story
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