That’s one reason to get rid of the landline. Source: Fox News
Animal hospital warns of winter ticks after engorged tick found on dog (via WMUR)
A local veterinarian’s office is warning pet owners to check their animals for ticks, even in winter, after finding an engorged tick on a dog in January. Source: WMUR
Scientists May Have Cracked Mystery of Tick-Borne Virus (via Research & Development)
Scientists have gained a better understanding of a potentially fatal tick-borne virus that emerged in China about a decade ago. Source: Research & Development
They’re here and they smell: Unseasonably warm winter weather unleashes stinkbugs in Wisconsin (via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Unseasonably warm weather has encouraged stink bugs to wake up and move around inside homes. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Alliance neighborhood trying to recover from cockroaches (via The Review)
It’s been a costly battle to get rid of the pests. Source: The Review
Mesa woman with newborn accuses apartment of doing nothing to stem cockroach infestation (via KSAZ)
A Mesa woman says her husband and newborn baby were living with endless amounts of cockroaches in their apartment, and management has done nothing. FOX 10’s Matt Galka reports. Source: KSAZ
How NC State University, Centers for Disease Control are innovating the mosquito bite fight – Triangle Business Journal (via Triangle Business Journal)
N.C. State University researchers are aiming to make a profound effect on preventing mosquito-based diseases. Source: Triangle Business Journal
USC researchers race against tick-borne illness before it spreads in U.S. (via USC News)
The Asian longhorned tick, new to North America, can transmit a disease that causes nausea, diarrhea and muscle pain — and, often, death. Source: USC News
7 Unexpected Signs Of Lyme Disease Experts Want You To Know About (via Bustle/)
There is no disease in the world like Lyme Disease. Few other illnesses have so many varied manifestations, are so difficult to test for, or take over your entire body like Lyme does. Many people with Lyme go undiagnosed because the symptoms of Lyme Source: Bustle/
A Virus Even More Dangerous Than Zika to Pregnant Woman (via r20.rs6.net)
The Zika virus must take the side roads into the placenta to infect a fetus, one researcher said but the Rift Valley fever virus takes the expressway. Source: r20.rs6.net
