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2026-06-28 13:45 UTC
CBC: ‘You’re going to be naked’: Thorough tick checks the new norm as parasitic pests spread - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mount-allison-professor-tick-checks-9.7248664
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"Find a mirror, find a friend," Lloyd said, adding that parents living in a high-tick area should be checking their young kids nightly.
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Includes link to this brilliant-but-boring #NB information page - https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/ocmoh/cdc/content/vectorborne_andzoonotic/tick-borne-diseases.html And now I desperately want a similar page for #BC. (Going to look for it now.)
@dmacphee@mas.to
#adulting #ticks #Lyme #Borrelia #PublicHealth #health
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@Amgine@mamot.fr 2026-06-28 14:03
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control #BCCDC has good set of pages with information regarding #tick borne illnesses - https://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/tick-borne-diseases There are links to other resources including eTick.ca which uses your image of a tick to identify and report tick species: 82,014 reports of ticks on humans! They also have mapped where ticks which might carry Lyme disease could be found - https://maps.bccdc.ca/Lyme/ @dmacphee@mas.to #BC #outdoors #hiking #tick #Lyme #LymeDisease