Resources/Links
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/CDbyDiseasebyYear2000-2004.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).