The Purple Greyhound

I'll be building this page over time. Meanwhile, if you have any suggestions for information or links regarding ticks and their diseases, please email me:  bob-tina@comcast.net   Thanks   Tina

I have no connection with the following links and therefor have no control over their content. I'm just mearly passing on the links for your own research and information.

 

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/StopTicks/   good information - including ideas to protect your yard

http://www.freewebs.com/3nofleas/lambiessmilefund.htm

http://saluqi.home.netcom.com/ticklinks.htm  

http://www.lymenews.org/html/about_lyme_news.html

http://www.tickinfo.com/americandogtick.htm

http://www.aldf.com/majorTick.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6641115.stm

http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/regionNorthAmerica.aspx

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic584.htm

http://webpages.lincoln.ac.uk/fruedisueli/FR-webpages/parasitology/Ticks/TIK/tick-key/background_ixodes.htm

http://textbookofbacteriology.net/Lyme.html

http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org/index.html

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rmsf/prevention.htm

http://www.lymememorial.org/Contact_Us.htm

http://bada-uk.org/IPBforum/index.php?showtopic=73&pid=227&mode=threaded&show=&st=&

http://extension.unh.edu/News/LymeDNH.htm

http://dogsandtickdisease.googlepages.com/

http://www.lyme.org/ticks/facts.html

http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body/tick_removal.html

http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pccommonticks.htm

TICK  FACTS

70%+ of ticks in NH test positive for some kind of disease

 

Tick diseases affect people and animals (mammals, birds, reptiles and others)

 

Tick diseases are not contagious between people and/or animals

 

There are over 850 species of ticks – about 100 are capable of transmitting diseases

 

Multiple diseases can be transmitted by a single tick bite

 

Disease symptoms can be extremely subtle and some can be dormant for years

 

Ticks are not insects – they are arachnids

(like spiders, mites and chiggers)

 

Ticks do not fly or drop from trees – they climb

 

Ticks can infect you in less than 24hrs,

less than 1hr after biting

 

TICKS ARE ALL YEAR ROUND!

They may not all survive outside

(below 45deg).

Some can survive colder temps within plants.

They can survive in your home, kennel, etc.

 

   (Photo close to true size)

Dog ticks and black-legged ticks
compared to a pencil

 

(From The Lyme Disease Foundation)

 

You may never even see the tick that has bitten and/or infected you, you family or your pet -

Know the signs and symptoms.

 

 

 

 

 

*Includes human monocytic and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

 

Note: All the data in this report are based upon information provided to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services under specific legislative authority. The numbers

reported may represent an underestimate of the true absolute number and incidence rate of cases in the state. Any release of personal identifying information is conditioned upon such

information remaining confidential. The unauthorized disclosure of any confidential medical or scientific data is a misdemeanor under New Hampshire law. The department is not

responsible for any duplication or misrepresentation of surveillance data released in this report. Case counts by year are based on morbidity date, which is the date closest to onset of illness

and may represent date of onset, date of diagnosis, or date of report, whichever is earliest. Case counts may not exactly match data published yearly by the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention. Data are complete as of June 1, 2007.

 

 

 

BEWARE OF COUNTERFEIT FLEA AND TICK PRODUCTS!!!

some are found from on-line companies that purchase in large bulk and

sell to the public at a discount. DON'T GAMBLE WITH YOUR PET'S LIFE!

www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/apr04/040401b.asp

http://www.stevedalepetworld.com/content/view/101/71/