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Tick Tips
(CDC)
Can
you identify the deer tick?
View
a typical Lyme Disease Rash
How
to remove a tick (pdf)
Landscaping
tips (pdf)
Using
repellants (pdf)
Lyme Disease and Animals
(CDC)
Ticks &
Lyme Disease: A Guide for Preventing Lyme Disease
(NYSDOH)
Brochures:
What you need to know about Tickborne Disease (pdf)
Lo
Que Necesita Saber Sobre Las Enfermedades Originadas por
las Garrapatas
(pdf)
Fact
Sheets:
Ehrlichiosis
(NYSDOH)
Lyme Disease: the facts, the challenge
(NIAID)
Other
Resources:
CDC
Lyme Disease Home Page
Human
Ehrlichiosis in the U.S. (CDC)
Babesia
Infection
(CDC)
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here.)
The Tickborne Disease
Info-line, (914) 813-LYME, is available 24-hours-a-day with current
information about Tickborne Diseases and their prevention.
Health
Department staff perform active outreach to identify trends in Lyme Disease, human
ehrlichiosis and other tick-borne diseases.
Thousands of reports are received annually from
physicians or laboratories for investigation .
These activities assure that
the Health Department has an accurate picture of Lyme
Disease and ehrlichiosis in the County and that physicians
are provided with the most up-to-date tools to prevent,
diagnose and treat tick-borne diseases.
A relatively new and potentially
more deadly tickborne disease, ehrlichiosis, continues to spread in Westchester
County. Education, prevention of tick bites and recognition and treatment of early signs and
symptoms remain our best weapon in the battle
against tickborne diseases. Another tickborne disease,
babesiosis, is now found in Westchester County also.
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From
left to right:
The deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) adult female,
adult male, nymph, and larva on a centimeter scale.
Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control
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Illustration
of three human-biting tick species found in the
United States. Only Ixodes ticks are
known to transmit the Lyme disease bacterium to
humans. (Click
here for an enlarged image).
Courtesy
of the CDC
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ticks Ixodes scapularis are responsible for
transmitting Lyme disease bacteria to humans in
the northeastern and north-central United States.
On the Pacific Coast, the bacteria are transmitted
to humans by the western black-legged tick (Ixodes
pacificus). Ixodes ticks are much
smaller than common dog and cattle ticks. In their
larval and nymphal stages, they are no bigger than
a pinhead. Ticks feed by inserting their mouths
into the skin of a host and slowly take in
blood. Ixodes ticks are most likely to
transmit infection after feeding for two or more
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