{"id":67484,"date":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/2006-tick-season-in-rhode-island-was-second-highest-on-record\/"},"modified":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","slug":"2006-tick-season-in-rhode-island-was-second-highest-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/10\/2006-tick-season-in-rhode-island-was-second-highest-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 tick season in Rhode Island was second highest on record"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 researcher says 68 percent of Rhode Islanders

\nat risk of encountering deer ticks near home<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 19, 2006 — Deer tick abundance in Rhode Island for spring and summer 2006 increased by 7.1 percent over 2005, making it the second highest year on record for ticks in the state, according to a 溏心vlog免费B站 entomologist. Only in 2002 was there a higher abundance of these ticks in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n


\nThe ticks transmit Lyme disease, babesiosis and anaplasmosis.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe reason for the high numbers this year probably can be attributed primarily to the fact that Rhode Island experienced the wettest May, June and July since 1982, and we know that tick numbers are tied closely to moisture levels during those months,\u201d said Professor Thomas Mather, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for Vector-Borne Disease.<\/p>\n


\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 researcher also noted that the number of babesiosis cases in Rhode Island increased significantly in 2006, and while all Lyme disease cases aren\u2019t tracked in the state, Mather suspects that incidence of that disease increased as well.<\/p>\n


\n\tBased on the results of this year\u2019s tick survey, Mather said that 68 percent of Rhode Island residents are now at risk for encountering a deer tick close to home, up from about 26 percent in 1993 when tick surveillance in the state began. <\/p>\n


\n\tDuring the annual statewide tick survey, the researchers found deer ticks \u2013 also known as black-legged ticks \u2013 at all of the 61 sites sampled. When the survey was first conducted, ticks were found at just 60 percent of the sites.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur research has found that more than 717,000 Rhode Islanders are now at risk for encountering a deer tick where they live,\u201d said Mather, whose tick surveillance program has resulted in the world\u2019s most comprehensive database on the changes in the distribution and abundance of deer ticks. \u201cTwenty years ago, the state\u2019s residents were largely free from this risk, unless they traveled to Prudence Island or Block Island.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tTo combat the increasing health threat posed by deer ticks in the state, Mather and his research team are launching a new initiative to \u201cdrive tick-borne disease out of Rhode Island.\u201d The goal of the new program is to prevent disease from occurring. \u201cTechnology development, public health outreach, and public participation are going to be the key drivers in making Rhode Island one of the safest northeastern states when it comes to tick-transmitted disease,\u201d said Mather. \u201cNow with so many people facing this risk, it definitely is the right time to take aggressive action.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tMather and his team launched the nation\u2019s first tick bite prevention website \u2013 www.tickencounter.org — in June to provide site users with detailed information about tick biology, strategies for controlling ticks, health tips, and other information useful to anyone going outside in areas where ticks are abundant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

溏心vlog免费B站 researcher says 68 percent of Rhode Islanders at risk of encountering deer ticks near home KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 19, 2006 — Deer tick abundance in Rhode Island for spring and summer 2006 increased by 7.1 percent over 2005, making it the second highest year on record for ticks in the state, […]<\/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-67484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67484","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=67484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}