Resources/Links

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California Lyme Disease Association
www.lymedisease.org

Centers for Disease Control tick information
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/list_tickborne.htm

Department of Entomology, NC State University
www.ces.ncsu.edu

Disease Maps, United States
http://diseasemaps.usgs.gov

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
703-305-5017 http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/chemicals/deet.htm

Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Yr 2006 guidelines for Lyme disease http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/
v43n9/40897/40897.html

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society - The ILADS and Burrascano treatment guidelines are available at this website
http://www.ilads.org

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society guidelines also at this government site http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?
doc_id=4836&nbr=003481&string=lyme

Lyme Disease Association, Inc.
http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org

National Research Fund for Tick-Borne Diseases, Inc.
http://nrftd.org/

North Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Public Health Pest Management
http://www.deh.enr.state.nc.us/phpm/html/ticks.html

North Carolina state data by county http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/gcdc/pdf/CDbyDisease
byYear2000-2004.pdf

North Carolina Lyme Disease Foundation
http://www.nclyme.org

NC Mosquito & Vector Control Association
http://www.ncmvca.org
(presentation at the Fall NCMVCA meeting by TIC-NC at their website)

One Health Initiative
http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/mission.php
Mission Statement
Recognizing that human and animal health and mental health (via the human-animal bond phenomenon) are inextricably linked, One Health seeks to promote, improve, and defend the health and well-being of all species by enhancing cooperation and collaboration between physicians, veterinarians, and other scientific health professionals and by promoting strengths in leadership and management to achieve these goals.

Open Eye Pictures film on Lyme Disease http://www.openeyepictures.com/underourskin/uos_background.html

Pennslyvania Lyme Disease Association booklet
http://www.lymepa.org/Basics2007v1.2Rev.pdf

Public Health Pest Management (NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources)
(919) 733-6407 http://www.deh.enr.state.nc.us/phpm/index.html

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study http://www.uga.edu/scwds/index2.htm

The Armed Forces Pest Management Board
http://www.afpmb.org/

The Tick Encounter Resource Center
It has a lot of information pertinent to the Northeast but still useful to southern regions, especially that on prevention
http://www.tickencounter.org/

Tick Identification
http://members.cox.net/rilyme/tick_identification.html
(Note: the deer tick referred to at this site is the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis)

Tick-Removal Information:
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~acarolog/remove.htm

University of New Haven tick research group Veterinary information on tick-borne infections
www.unh-lyme.org

University of Wisconsin College of Veterinary Medicine
http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/zoonoses/
If you click on the sections for Ehrlichiosis, Lyme Disease, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, then follow the links for the disease in dogs, there is good information about signs of disease and treatment. The wording is somewhat technical, but accurate. It is fairly up to date (2004).