08.03.2018 Editorial Reporter editorial: A new health threat The clock is ticking. As if the deer tick problem weren’t bad enough, two state departments — Health and Agriculture & Markets — are now urging New Yorkers to...
05.10.2016 Government County reports on tick-borne illnesses According to a newly released report by the Suffolk County Department of Health’s Tick and Vector-borne Diseases Task Force, between 2010 and 2014 the incidence of several tick-borne illnesses...
05.04.2015 Columns Guest Columnt: Tick-borne diseases — menace in our midst BY JOHN RASWEILE As a young scientist, I trained as a post-doctoral fellow with the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Long before Babesia became...
06.02.2014 News Lyme sufferers defend 4-posters Those who deny the effectiveness of 4-posters and the importance of spending money to lessen the tick infestation and cull the deer herd “are not doing a public service.”...