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‘Ticks Surprise Us:’ 2021 May Be Big Lyme Disease Year May 7 , 2021 -- Planning to hit the beach this summer? You might want to throw some bug spray into that beach bag along with your sunscreen. For the first time, Lyme disease-carrying ticks -- typically associated with woodlands in New England and other forested regions of the U.S. -- have been found in abundance near beaches in Northern California, new research shows. Daniel Salkeld, PhD, a Colorado State University research scientist who led the new study, said the findings surprised even his own team, which did not expect to d...

Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches and 'pretty much wherever we looked' Paulina Firozi, The Washington Post April 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A man walks along the coast as the fog rolls in at Drakes Beach in Inverness, California on December 13, 2019. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP) PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images Disease-carrying ticks, commonly associated with wooded areas, are also abundant near beaches in Northern California, according to a study. They were not found on beaches themselves, but in the brush and vegetation beachgoers may walk through to get to the sand...

By Marlene Cimons / Published Spring 2021 Long before the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in telemedicine, John Aucott's patients would text and email him photos of their rashes. "My kids used to joke: 'Don't look at dad's phone because it's got pictures of people's body parts,'" Aucott says. "Every time my phone pinged, it felt like Groundhog Day because it was the same, over and over." His phone is still pinging, but Aucott, director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center, wants to see the photos—because he knows that untreated Lyme...