As the weather begins to warm up, ticks are starting to be seen again.<\/p>\n
Following a significantly severe season last year, experts are warning people that this season is likely to be worse than last year.<\/p>\n
Nicole Baumgarth, with John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says last May, there was a 30% increase in emergency room visits for tick-borne illness compared to the previous year. She says this is due to a warming climate and an expanding tick population. <\/p>\n
To protect yourself from ticks, people are should use bug spray and wear permethrin-treated clothing that covers the skin. <\/p>\n
“You wanna have long sleeved, long pants, be a little dorky and put your trousers into your socks, wear a hat,” she says. <\/p>\n
Baumgarth adds that after a person has been outdoors, they should check their body for ticks and take a hot shower. Ticks that have not attached to a body can easily be washed off. If one does find a tick on their body, they need to carefully remove it and place it a plastic bag in the refrigerator. <\/p>\n
People can develop symptoms from tick-borne illnesses anywhere from three days to 30 days after a bite. Symptoms include fever, chills, headache, muscle and joint aches and swollen lymph nodes. If someone has Lyme disease, they will also have rash with a target or bull’s eye.<\/p>\n
Baumgarth says it takes two days between a tick attaching itself and the germs that lead to Lyme disease being transmitted. <\/p>\n
“So you have some time and that’s why it’s not recommended to go and see the doctor immediately after you’ve found the tick, particularly if you just came in from a hike or something,” she says. <\/p>\n
A vaccine to fight Lyme could soon be available. <\/p>\n
Pfizer is planning to seek regulatory approval for a new shot.<\/p>\n
Nearly half a million people are diagnosed and treated for the disease annually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the weather begins to warm up, ticks are starting to be seen again. Following a significantly severe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,73152,9,24,63,29851],"class_list":{"0":"post-181346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-lyme-disease","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-ticks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}