Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. If left untreated the infection can spread to joints, the heart and central nervous system and cause a chronic debilitating disease. Early signs include a skin rash called erythema migrans, flu-like symptoms and a headache. The
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Disrupt habitat for animals Ticks need a humid environment to survive and they feed on vertebrate hosts to grow and reproduce. To make the property safer from ticks you should minimize the number of potential hosts and create a drier, less inviting environment for ticks. Smaller ticks feed on birds,
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Tick prevention in dogs Our pets are constantly playing in conditions that are conducive to tick exposure. Once a dog is infected with one of these organisms the chance is that dog is infected for life. Prevention is therefor critically important. Occasionally a dog can pick up hundreds of ticks
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Who is Robert Bransfield? I am a psychiatrist practicing in New Jersey, USA. Like many psychiatrists trained in the early 70s my initial training was psychoanalytic. I have always had an interest in attempting to explain and treat the cases we refer to as being “treatment resistant”. It was clear
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