Ticks And Disease Prevention In The News

Read recent press releases from URI's Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its affiliates

• Clothing-Only Tick Repellent Put To Test

• URI entomologist to test tick repellent by making volunteers squirm, Sept. 6 & 7

• A dramatic surge seen in the island's deer tick population, August 2, 2007

• URI researcher: Tick abundance running below average in Rhode Island, but Lyme disease risk still high, June 21, 2007

• He Wants Ticks To Be Taken More Seriously, June 4, 2007

• Tick Control Awareness Day, June 2

• Time To Take Action Against Ticks

• 2006 tick season in Rhode Island was second highest on record

• URI researchers: Another tick-borne disease is on the rise in Rhode Island -- Babesiosis 7.24.2006

• Warm winter, wet spring leads to abundance of ticks URI researcher says early-season deer tick numbers above last year's record 6.29.2006

• Drizzle, downpours fail to dampen Rhode Island's Tick Control Awareness Day 6.06.2006

• Tick Avoidance Tips 5.18.2006

• URI to host neighborhood tick control demonstration May 14 5.14.2006

• URI tick expert to host numerous statewide events 5.1.2006

• URI research team launches community-wide tick control effort in Narragansett 11.3.2005

• Got Lyme disease? You're not alone 8.28.2005

• URI research team launches community-wide tick control effort in Narragansett 6.29.2005