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Mainers urged to be extra cautious as deer tick numbers increase

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Mainers urged to be extra cautious as deer tick numbers increase

Tick and Lyme

Mainers urged to take precautions as deer tick numbers increase

The University of Maine Tick Lab is seeing an increase in deer tick samples compared to this time last year.
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Pfizer to conduct Lyme disease vaccine trial in Maine

Most Mainers will be eligible for the trial in July, when Northern Light opens up registration.
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State survey finds ticks killing moose at highest rate yet

State officials say 86% of moose calves collared last winter had died by the beginning of May, the highest mortality rate since tracking of moose began.
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Maine property owners find more deer ticks on their land

More ticks were collected in the 2021 Maine Tick Forest Survey than during the 2020 survey.
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Maine property owners report finding nearly twice as many ticks in 2021 than 2020

Twenty-five percent of them carried the pathogens that cause Lyme disease.
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Maine researchers study expanding tick population

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, with most cases coming in the summer months.
Tick and Lyme

Maine researchers study expanding tick population

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, with most cases coming in the summer months.
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MIT researchers propose fighting Lyme on Nantucket with mice

Hundreds of thousands of native white-footed mice engineered to resist the bacteria that causes Lyme could help slow disease transmission, researchers say.
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Waldo County resident dies from tick-borne illness

The illness is spread by the bite of infected ticks.
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Maine CDC confirms fatal case of rare Powassan virus

Waldo County resident has died from a rare case of Powassan virus, which is contracted by a bite from an infected tick.
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Maine forest study helps track deer tick populations

The decades-long study involved thousands of ticks collected from small mammals.

Motorcyclist dies after crash with truck in Somerville

Man found in contents of recycling truck died of natural causes, police say

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Mainers urged to be extra cautious as deer tick numbers increase

Mainers urged to take precautions as deer tick numbers increase

Pfizer to conduct Lyme disease vaccine trial in Maine

State survey finds ticks killing moose at highest rate yet

Maine property owners find more deer ticks on their land

Maine property owners report finding nearly twice as many ticks in 2021 than 2020

Maine researchers study expanding tick population

Maine researchers study expanding tick population

MIT researchers propose fighting Lyme on Nantucket with mice

Waldo County resident dies from tick-borne illness

Maine CDC confirms fatal case of rare Powassan virus

Maine forest study helps track deer tick populations

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