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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Children celebrate the end of the school year and are willing to spend the summer outdoors, parents should pay attention to a warning of an entomologist at the University of Rhode Island: Deer Tick numbers in the State are well above average in 2011, which means that the risk of contracting Lyme disease or other diseases tick is especially high.
Thomas Mather, Director of the Centre of URI to the vector, says he is seeing "more stopovers in more places" this year. The abundance of deer tick nymphs is 52 percent more numbers for 2010, 37 per cent above the average of the last five years and 15 percent above 2009, which was that Mather called it "a year very ticky".
A year long "ticky"
Mather attributed part of the abundance of graduation this year, the snow that lasted the full Winter and had protected the adult tick of damage. While most adult deer ticks if was by now, their descendants of carriers of the disease is now reaching the peak of their seasonal abundance.
Mather, "always began the Spring end with roughly the same number of nymphs each year," said, "but the risk of meeting the graduation season is really just a function of how quickly lifes for".
Deer ticks are very sensitive to desiccation. When the tick Habitat humidity levels below 80 percent to more than eight hours, ticks can not rehydrate themselves and die. Until now, the moisture levels in Rhode Island for may and June have not fallen below this threshold for any extended period, which allows these steps to stay active and plentiful.
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"" This year was another concern that more and more the adult phase were encountering ticks of deer in places that we are not accustomed to find them, along the suburban roads. ""And if there are ticks adults, nymphs, are also said Mather. "Deer Ticks are not only found in deep forests, so Rhode Islanders need to be vigilant about themselves looking for ticks, while I don't think they have entered into undergraduate Habitat".
What the future holds for the undergraduate numbers this summer?
"Everything depends on the humidity," said Mather. "The preliminary results of ongoing research in our laboratories suggest that moisture conditions of two weeks ago can predict the risk of graduation nymphal stage likely encounter today, so when we started having longer periods of low humidity, undergraduate numbers will decrease soon."
Due to the current alarming level undergraduate meet risk Mather recommends that all efforts of Rhode Islanders made extras now take the appropriate steps to avoid tick bites and practicing personal strategies for prevention of Lyme disease to control sorting daily and performance in the courtyard of protective measures. He recommends:
-verification of your body thoroughly each day by ticks;
-through a clip ends in beautiful scale removal to safely remove attached ticks;
-treatment of clothes with a permethrin-containing insect repellent and wearing clothes treaties always going into areas where they can lurk ticks;
-maintenance of the edge of the beach clear of junk because that's where the exposure to ticks is more likely to occur; and
-hiring a professional pest controller or qualified arborist to implement appropriate treatment scale around the courtyard.
"Most people don't associate the poppy seed size nymphal stage deer brand until it was for one more day and generally about one of every five nymphal stage deer ticks carrying bacteria of Lyme disease and transmit it when they bite, explained Mather."So bring clothing brand insect repellent is a good idea. "
Permethrin-treated clothing can pass multiple wash cycles and be effective, depending on how it is applied to the treatment. For example, clothing treated commercially available from several providers can wash 70 times and still tick repellent.
For more information about ticks, Lyme disease and strategies for avoiding tick bites, visit www.tickencounter.org.
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