Beyond Lyme: New Tick-Borne Diseases On The Rise In U.S.

The world is in a new age of infectious diseases.

Over the past 60 years, the number of new diseases cropping up per decade has almost quadrupled. The number of disease outbreaks each year has more than tripled since 1980.

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/11/519518318/beyond-lyme-new-tick-borne-diseases-on-the-rise-in-u-s?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170311

Posted on March 12, 2017 09:48 PM by

biohexx1

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Yeeeeks. I suppose this is the nature of natural selection -- something has to pop up to 'try' to control the population! :-/

now watching the movie Contagion to calm my nerves... wait, what? :)

Posted by sambiology over 7 years ago

In the past 30 years one of our dogs got Ehrlichiosis from a tick in our yard, and another had Lyme's . And I got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite....

Posted by cgritz over 7 years ago

The real problem is human population increase, which causes us to invade new habitats and come in contact with new pathogens.

Posted by biohexx1 over 7 years ago

Beyond Lyme: New Tick-Borne Diseases On The Rise In U.S.

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