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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 -
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'Scent Of A Woman' Tells Male Redback Spiders To Find A Mate
April 5, 2006 — If men think finding a nice partner to settle down and raise children with is tough, consider the plight of the male Australian redback spider. Instead of personality conflicts, spats over in-laws ... > full story -
Why A Spider Hanging From A Thread Does Not Rotate
April 4, 2006 — The extraordinary properties of spider's thread are like a blessing for researchers working on polymers. However, the amazing twisting properties it displays are still not very well understood. How ... > 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 -
Amber Reveals Ecology Of 30 Million Year Old Spiders
March 1, 2006 — Scientists at The University of Manchester and the Manchester Metropolitan University have carried out the first comparative scientific study of ancient spiders trapped in amber more than 30 millions ... > 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 -
Evolution Mystery: Spider Venom And Bacteria Share Same Toxin
February 2, 2006 — It's a case of evolutionary detective work. Biology researchers at Lewis & Clark College and the University of Arizona have found evidence for an ancient transfer of a toxin between ancestors ... > full story -
Scientists Show That Tick-Borne Flaviviruses Use A Novel Mechanism To Evade Host Defenses
October 10, 2005 — Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have made the surprising discovery that flaviviruses, which cause such ... > full story -
Spider Blood Found In 20 Million Year Old Fossil
September 30, 2005 — A scientist from the University of Manchester has discovered the first identified droplets of spider blood in a piece of amber up to 20 million years ... > full story
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