Tick-Borne Disease Prevention

I have been asked in the past how to prevent TYick-Borne diseases contraction, which can include Lyme disease. Appropriate guidelines include instruction on how to repel ticks and prevent tick bites, and how to dislodged ticks once a bite has occurred.

These two links on prevention refer to the Australian Lyme Disease Association and the Centre for Disease Control in the USA.

http://www.lymedisease.org.au/about-lyme-disease/prevention/
http://www.cdc.gov/features/lymedisease/

This video from the Tick Encounter Resource Centre shows how to remove ticks properly with tweezers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wotB38WrRY

​Image Credit: John Tann from Flickr

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