Anaplasmosis

Where there are ticks, there's bound to be tick disease. According to veterinary parasitologist Dr. Michael Dryden, the tick population in America has exploded in recent years. Curiously, dogs enjoy more benefits than people when it comes to...

However welcome they are after a long winter, sunshine and springtime do bring with them some unwelcome visitors that spread disease -- ticks. Health officials from the North Dakota Department of Health and Central Valley Health District are reminding...

Los investigadores de Yale han identificado otra enfermedad transmitida por garrapatas en los Estados Unidos. En un estudio publicado el jueves en el New England Journal of Medicine, los investigadores escriben que han identificado personas en el sur de...

Casselton Veterinary Service, Inc. has recently diagnosed our first equine case of Anaplasmosis in May, and now another in June. Both locally kept horses returned to normal shortly after starting antibiotic therapy. We have found a fair number of dogs...

Q: What should you do if you were bitten by a tick? A: Tick bites are usually harmless. They may cause a raised, reddened area or a minor allergic reaction at the site of the bite. However, if the tick is infected with bacteria, viruses or protozoa,...

Area outdoors people have been reporting an uptick in, well, ticks this spring. But pinning the blame on a mild winter for an upswing in numbers may not be a catch-all answer anymore. The upswing could be simply because of the tick's normal expansion...