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  • Blog Post: Spring is coming and so are the Ticks

    Spring is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere so it will soon be time to put away winter gear and get ready for other activities. Warmer weather also brings out ticks. Understanding the life cycle of ticks and tickborne illnesses is a critically important part of prevention. While exposure to ticks...
    onMon, Mar 21 2011

  • File: Ticks: Prevention and Protection

    This excellent video on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases is from the Hill Walking Essentials DVD by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and the British Mountaineering Council which shows the essential skills and techniques for hill walking. It follows two walkers on days out in the Lake District and...
    onSat, Mar 6 2010

  • Blog Post: Tick-Borne Illness

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the next post based upon a presentation given at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting held in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The presentation was entitled “Lessons Re-learned: The...
    onSat, Mar 6 2010

  • Wiki Page: Are You Managing Post-Trip Safety?

    Are You Managing Post-Trip Safety? by Rick Curtis August 08, 2006 The recent death of a student wilderness therapy program has been linked to an insect-borne disease. Many of these diseases like West Nile Virus, Lyme Disease, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever may not show up until weeks, even months after...
    onWed, Jan 14 2009

  • Blog Post: Tick Attachment Sites

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The first issue of Volume 19 of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine has just been published. It contains some very interesting information, some of which I will share with you in this and another post...
    onSun, Mar 30 2008
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