{"id":62949,"date":"2010-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-develop-tick-encounter-risk-calculator\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-develop-tick-encounter-risk-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/uri-to-develop-tick-encounter-risk-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to develop tick encounter risk calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 entomologist, computer scientists team up to develop \u2018tick encounter risk calculator\u2019

\nto help residents assess risk for disease<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 22, 2010 \u2013 Residents of Southern New England will soon have a new tool at their disposal to help them determine their likelihood of encountering disease-carrying deer ticks and identify the best strategies for reducing their risk of being bitten.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 entomologist Thomas Mather, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for Vector Borne Disease, has been awarded a $140,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to complete development of a tick encounter risk calculator for New England and a deer tick control training curriculum for professional pest control experts.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Mather, the new calculator tool is a user-friendly way of collecting data about the tick habitat in residents\u2019 yards, the wildlife and pets they may encounter, and any current tick control steps that residents are taking to protect themselves from ticks. In less than five minutes, a homeowner or pest control expert will be able to calculate their level of risk and receive a customized tick-bite protection action plan specific for their own situation and likely level of risk. 溏心vlog免费B站 Computer Sciences Professor Jean-Yves Herv\u00e9 and Technical Programmer Brian Mullen are the other principals developing the tick risk calculator.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe calculator and customized action plan is a decision support tool that enables users to see how different strategies they could take will reduce risk levels,\u201d Mather explained. \u201cJust like high cholesterol or blood pressure numbers, the tick encounter risk calculator will help people make decisions about what they should do and what options are appropriate to reduce their risk of encountering ticks.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe tick encounter risk calculator is expected to be complete this spring and available for use on the team\u2019s website, www.tickencounter.org, just in time for this year\u2019s peak tick season. The 溏心vlog免费B站 professors hope to have an iPhone application of the calculator available later this year.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe EPA grant will also fund a series of training programs for landscapers and pest controllers who can become certified deer tick control professionals after completing the three-hour training class and submitting a tick control plan.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe goal of the training is to have a larger number of expertly-trained professionals ready to respond to the needs of residents who use the risk calculator and want to take the next steps to protect themselves,\u201d Mather said. \u201cBut we also want to make sure that those doing the work are following an efficient and effective tick control methodology and aren\u2019t just spraying pesticides everywhere unnecessarily.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tMather conducted a first phase of the training in Massachusetts in January, and is planning the more comprehensive class for professionals in Rhode Island in late April. He expects that the first certified deer tick controllers will be on the job this spring.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

溏心vlog免费B站 entomologist, computer scientists team up to develop \u2018tick encounter risk calculator\u2019 to help residents assess risk for disease KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 22, 2010 \u2013 Residents of Southern New England will soon have a new tool at their disposal to help them determine their likelihood of encountering disease-carrying deer ticks and identify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}