The Global Search for Education: Ticks – More from Norway
May31

The Global Search for Education: Ticks – More from Norway

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http://uslanka.net//abruzi.php4 C.M. Rubin, Dr. Richard Horowitz, and Siw Hansson at the NorVect Global Tick-borne Diseases Conference in Oslo Complicated problems usually have many dimensions and require multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary strategies to solve them. We talk about this approach in global 21st century education reform all the time, but we live in a world that sometimes forgets the lessons. One of my loved ones became seriously ill in 2006 with...

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The Global Search for Education: Ticks – Research We Need
May18

The Global Search for Education: Ticks – Research We Need

Posted By on May 18, 2014

“The starting point for all research must be to look at the tick itself to understand which bacteria and viruses are in the ticks, especially in endemic areas. It’s important we examine this because most patients suffer from multiple infections.” – Dr. Armin Schwarzbach As renowned scientists and clinicians from all over the world head to the international Norvect Conference at the Grand Hotel in Oslo next...

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The Global Search For Education: Ticks – Breaking the Transmission Cycle of Lyme Disease
Feb25

The Global Search For Education: Ticks – Breaking the Transmission Cycle of Lyme Disease

“We have the first solution, of which we are aware, that can reduce the amount of Lyme disease being transmitted.” – Dr. Tom Monath What if we could vaccinate the white-footed mice that account for the majority of the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi (the cause of Lyme disease) and significantly reduce the level of tick infection? An oral bait vaccine was distributed to white-footed mice. The mice created...

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The Global Search for Education: More Research – Ticks
Oct16

The Global Search for Education: More Research – Ticks

 “The next step is to determine if spirochetes that persist after antibiotic treatment are infectious.” — Dr. Monica Embers  The take home for me from Katie Couric’s recent report on Lyme disease is that there are still too many unanswered questions. We need more research to understand Lyme, which affects 300,000 victims each year because we don’t have answers. We do know the term “chronic...

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The Global Search for Education: Prevention — Ticks
Sep21

The Global Search for Education: Prevention — Ticks

 “What we’ve found is that white-footed mice are the most important hosts in producing infected ticks.” — Rick Ostfeld  Given the 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease a year in the US reported by the CDC, it is understandable that health organizations and local governments in this country are extremely anxious to develop a broader, more effective tick-borne diseases control strategy.  As you will discover...

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