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and how the implementation of the Heart Foundation Tick program The major work of the Heart Foundation Tick program is to challenge the food industries and improve certain nutrient of food product for meeting their strict nutrition and labeling benchmark. The target of this Tick program is to focus on the improvement of public health for addressing the rising problem of chronic disease through change the food supply. What is the ‘Tick’ The Tick is a logo that is provided to the food product by

Introduction Ticks are insects that draw blood for food. Most ticks live in shrubs and grassy areas. They climb onto people and animals that brush against the leaves and grasses they rest on. Then they bite, attaching themselves to the skin. Most ticks are harmless, but some carry germs that can spread to a person through a bite and cause disease. To reduce your risk of getting a disease from a tick bite, it is important to take steps to prevent tick bites. It is also important to check for ticks after

What You Can Do Know About Ticks By Jim Doyle, Hartney Greymont, a Davey company Ticks and tick-borne diseases are continually rising in the United States. In fact, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just found that tick-borne diseases have more than doubled in the last 13 years. Unfortunately for us in Massachusetts, those numbers hold true. The number of confirmed Lyme disease cases rose 65 percent from 2005 to 2009, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

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Members of the genus Ehrlichia, the causative agent of human monocytotrophic ehrlichiosis (HME), are important emerging tick-borne pathogens globally. Ehrlichia spp. is naturally transmitted by Ixodidae family ticks and maintained between the ticks and the wild or domestic animal reservoir hosts. E. canis can cause illness in dogs and other canids, and these animals are thought to be the reservoir hosts. Evidence of infection with this or a similar organism has also been reported in cats and captive

In 1981, a spirochetal bacterium was discovered in a nymphal tick, Ixodes scapularis and named Borrelia burgdorferi. This species has now been divided into multiple species, three of which cause human infection. Agents belonging to the eubacterial phylum of spirochetes, which are bacteria shaped like corkscrews and are actively motile, cause Lyme borrelioses, also called Lyme disease. As discovered from its sequenced genome, B. burgdorferi depends entirely on its host for nutrients. Another unique

bite of an infected tick. The infection can spread, and some of the symptoms are similar to the flu. If Lyme disease is not treated, it may then cause joint pain, swelling, numbness, problems thinking, fatigue, muscle weakness, and other problems. CAUSES This condition is caused by bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi. You can get Lyme disease by being bitten by an infected tick. The tick must be attached to your skin to transmit the infection. Deer often carry infected ticks. RISK FACTORS The

disease to ticks, rodents are the main threat. “Ostfeld’s research indicates that white-footed mice infect 75-95 percent of larval ticks that feed on them, while deer only infect about one percent” (Mercola). Urban sprawl and hunting has eliminated many of the mice’s natural predators allowing populations to grow and infected ticks to spread. Chances of being bitten by a nymph (young deer tick) are greater during mid May to mid August. Generally, they are the size of poppy seeds. Adult ticks are greater

the bacteria Borrellia burgdorferi, and it is the most common vector borne illness in the United States (CDC, 2014). Lyme disease is transmitted by the blacklegged ticks and they live on animals like dogs and cats, around stone walls and wood piles. These ticks also live in wooded and bushy areas with high grass and leaf litter. These ticks hold onto leaves and grasses by their lower legs, where they get picked up by a passing host and that is one of the ways through which they make their way to the

has also affected humans and dogs in different parts of North America. It is one of the most common tick-causing symptoms however only 5-10% of dogs are affected showing different forms of the disease. Living in Lunenburg & Queens County (NS), there seems to be a higher population of deer ticks, as well as other parts of the province. The deer ticks are the primary carrier of the disease. A tick carrying the bacteria (B.burgdorferi) that can cause Lyme disease can transmit it to a dog after filling