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Blog Post: New Tick-borne Virus with high mortality rate identified in China

Rick Curtis

A newly discovered tick-borne disease in China is caused by a never-before identified virus. The new virus, SFTSV, stands for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome bunyavirus and can cause those infected to experience fever and multiple organ failure. According to PhysOrg.com severe symptoms include...

onSun, Mar 27 2011
Blog Post: Spring is coming and so are the Ticks

Rick Curtis

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
Blog Post: iPhone Medical Apps: TickDoctor

Paul Auerbach

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Dr. Jeremy Joslin is a wilderness medicine aficionado and has without question posted the greatest number of intelligent and useful comments to posts at this blog. So, I'm pleased to learn that he has created...

onSun, Sep 20 2009
Blog Post: Tick Attachment Sites

Outdoor Ed

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