Tag: Tick-borne Illness

A total of five people have been diagnosed with the illness, and all have recently been in Baja California, Mexico

Suspected cases mainly occur in counties within the Southern, Midwestern, and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Census Bureau regions

Most of the patients with soft tick relapsing fever were hospitalized, but no fatalities were reported

Subset of alpha-gal allergic patients show gastrointestinal symptoms without skin changes or anaphylaxis

Prevalence increasing in certain states, including Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, which now have endemic transmission

Strong recommendations include the use of tick repellents for the skin (DEET, picaridin) and clothing (permethrin)

83 percent of these were West Nile virus disease cases, of which 65 percent were classified as neuroinvasive disease

Incidence highest in Northeast at 110 per 100,000 emergency department visits and among pediatric patients aged 0 to 9 years

GalSafe pigs were created to eliminate alpha-gal sugar on the surface of the pigs' cells

Prophylactic antibiotic therapy should be given within 72 hours of identified high-risk tick bite