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Ticks And Disease Prevention In The News

Press releases from URI's Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its affiliates

• Ick....Ticks! Girl Scouts Learn How To Protect Themselves And Earn Tick Control Awareness Patch

• Direct Link Projo.com : "Through this URI entomologist, ticks talk"
  Direct Link Projo.com : Watch the video interview
  

• Tick abundance in Rhode Island running 54% above last year

• Tick abundance in Rhode Island running 54% above last year

• WJAR Channel 10: Pre-treated clothes can repel ticks

• Think TICK...Take ACTION Awards, to be presented at the “BigTick Gala” June 5th, 2009 at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center

• Deer tick abundance in Rhode Island down in 2008, so why are ticks active now?

• Larger, adult stage deer ticks are back with a vengeance

• Five Tick Diseases You Should Know About

• URI entomologist predicts early tick season, high infection rate

• Apple Pickers Foundation donates $100,000 to URI to support public education about Lyme disease prevention

• 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 -- Babesiosis7.24.2006

• 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

Are you concerned about the serious health threat caused by ticks?

Would you like to make appropriate tick-borne diseases prevention programming more widely available? If you answered yes to these questions, please consider supporting the Tick Encounter Resource Center at the University of Rhode Island. Proceeds help support tick-bite prevention programs.