Scientists say that it is time to increase efforts to prevent tick-related diseases.
“I know that it’s not stylish,” Nicholas Ogden, “but it really stops the ticks.”
He takes his pants to his socks, then sprays the insect repellent on both of them.
The scientist is preparing to test a part of the Mont-Sent Bruno, which is a hill in the southern Quebec, for the tick-without catching diseases that they carry. Today, he has received a special look for Black-Legged Tick Apsara. At this stage, they are large as a poppy, and they are the most likely suspects carrying bacteria and parasites that cause distortions such as lime disease, anaplasmosis, or badesiosis.
With warm temperatures, ticks are taking root in places that they have never before. And Ogden, a senior scientist at Canada’s Public Health Agency, feels that it is only worse.
Ogden said, “The study we have done is still a way. Ticks are still on to spread their geographical boundary,” Ogden said, who has studied Ticks for decades.
“What it shows,” he says, “is that climate change is affecting our health.”
Now, Canadians are trying to get ahead of scientific tendency – research on new, practical methods to control tick population, and call for new prevention methods.
National tick monitoring
Since the tick population has increased, the number of sick people with tick-related diseases in Canada falls ill, Dr. Gerald Evans, Kingston, is an infectious pathologist at Queen’s University at Onts.
“We continue to look at more and more cases,” he said. “We see people with anaplasmosis mainly in spring, but we see lime disease throughout the year, but mainly in spring and summer.”
Negger Elmeh, a scientist at the National Collecting Center for Environmental Health, says that all levels of the government in Canada can be widely done to track tick population.
This may include a broad countrywide system that allows scientists to see what ticks are.
“There is something that is going on in the Canadian pocket, but there is not a national system of broad tick monitoring,” he said.
Ogden of PHAC said that tick monitoring across Canada has already increased to a large extent in the last two decades, as the tick population has increased.
Health agency final report Tack Talk, authorities tracked Archnids through images or samples collected from people or their pets, voluntarily presented by public members, veterinarians or health workers.
The report also saw the ticks collected by the researchers from their natural habitat, such as drag sampling (drawing clothes along the forest ground, and what kind of tick of 331 sites in 10 provinces).
Through that data, it was found that in provinces such as Quebec and Ontario, one of the four Blagled Ticks took bacteria that causes lime disease.
Deer and white to -foot mice target
Researchers are also watching to curb the tick population by targeting animals on which they feed.
A system that has been used in the US focuses on deer. Called “4-Poster treatment”, this involves keeping deer near rollers soaked in strategically tick-killing chemicals.
“As deer are eating, their feet are rubbing against these rollers, which are applying pesticides,” Elmih says.
Toronto -based Respirologist Dr. Sameer Gupta is warning of an increase in tick bytes and tick-related diseases in Canada. Ticks are parasites that feed on the blood of wild animals, and are known to transmit bacteria through cutting.
However, Ogden says that these systems are not effective everywhere.
“In some places, very few deer actually come in feeders, so it depends from one place to another,” Ogden said, citing research from colleagues on the effectiveness of the system in meritimes.
“That’s why it is still a research project.”
Quebec is discovering uniform treatment, but targeting mice and other rodents, not deer. Called the “reservoir-targeted methods”, it tries to reduce the transmission of pathogens that cause diseases between animals such as mice, mice and chipmanks with white legs.
This may mean that the fodder is put in a station in which tick-killing pesticides are called acroysides.
“So when a mouse goes inside and eats one of those options, it receives a dose of acroyside, which goes to the surface of the mouse and kills the ticks.”
Smart landscaping
Tucking your pants into your socks, using insect disturbances such as DEET or Ecaridin, and after spending time out, check your body completely for ticks, ways to prevent tick-related diseases.
Another way is that people can reduce the risk, says Elmih, it is smart how their backyard or recreational areas are installed.
Dr. Lauren Edelman, an veterinarian, internal medical expert and co-founder of the Senior Dog Veterinary Society, says that she is seeing that more dogs get into their practice with ticks. She tells the BC that today Mitchell Eliot Owners should give their pets a head -tick -tick check after walking, and the animal should be taken to the vet.
“Ticks do not like hard surfaces, so using (hardscaping) materials – concrete, rock, wooden chips, gravel – is very good for areas that gather and assembled, because ticks do not like to crawl on it.”
Another way to curb tick population, Elmih says: sorting trees and shrubs and maintaining lawns. She says, reduces humidity and increases sunlight, which does not like tick. People can also add garden plants that are less likely to be attracted to deer and rodents, such as lavender, Russian sage, peniral, iris and daffodils.
“I think we are more clever than ticks. So I think, if we can work with cooperation, I think there is a lot that we can do.”
