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Scientists tackle 'difficult problem' how warming spreads Lyme disease
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In 2008, Rachael French, a then-healthy 22-year-old, vacationed with friends in a cabin in the woods near Gaylord, Mich. On the last day of the trip, while at a local water park, French said she felt the sting of chlorine on an open wound, looked down and noticed a small scab on her thigh. She figured it was a spider bite. Within hours, she remembers feeling nauseated, sore and exhausted, but chalked it up to having a busy vacation. Things became a bit foggy from there, she said. When she...
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The Deed Records of Lyme Town Hall: Historic, Irreplaceable - and Protected by Firelock
2015-02-19 11:30:22| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
KUTZTOWN, PA When Lyme, Connecticut recently refurbished its town hall, a crucial element of the renovation was a Firelock Fireproof Modular Vault, providing reliable protection for Lyme's critical current documents and its prized historic ones. Lyme is among America's most historic towns. Like any municipality...
Lyme is no IP
2014-11-10 05:30:05| Paper - Topix.net
So, Lyme Timber Company of Hanover, N.H. wants us to close the Perkins Clearing Road to snowmobilers. I drove that road in my SUV three weeks ago and witnessed their logging operations.
Climate Change Linked to Spread of Lyme Disease
2014-09-26 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As if we needed another reason to deplore the impacts of climate change, its warming effects are encouraging the northward spread of Lyme disease, carried by the black-legged tick which rides on deer, rodents and dogs, the Daily Climate reports. While common in the U.S., it was rare in Canada until recently. Because of that, Canadians eventually diagnosed with the disease were delayed in getting appropriate treatment. But with more attention comes more action. This summer legislation to promote...
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Lyme Disease: A Growing Epidemic, Thats Hard To Diagnose
2014-06-01 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vermont Standard: Dr. Rex Carr has already received six calls about tick bites so far this year. He said at the moment its shaping up to be the worst year ever for ticks and Lyme disease. The disease, which is transmitted by infected ticks can cause joint pain and complications with the heart and nervous system, is a growing epidemic in the state, with 674 confirmed cases last year. But Carr is 100 percent positive it goes undertreated. Doctors are afraid of being accused of making a mistake, of treating somebody...