Some estimates indicate that tick-borne diseases cost society more than $1 billion a year.

A spotted fever is a type of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin.

But it also complicates efforts to diagnose and treat tick-borne disease.

In South America, tick-borne disease recognition and occurrence is rising.

In general, specific laboratory tests are not available to rapidly diagnose tick-borne diseases.

He is now working on a project to stop the spread of tick-borne diseases by immunizing the animals that carry them.

Tick-borne diseases occur worldwide, including in your own backyard.

Effective insect repellents can protect you from serious mosquito- and tick-borne diseases.

The speakers said they were seeking an increase in the $150,000 now allocated in the budget for the tick-borne disease.

Because of a recent bumper crop some scientists are anticipating a substantial rise in tick-borne diseases this year.

It is a tick-borne disease, caused by Theileria annulata.

He is also searching for diagnostic methods that can detect more than one tick-borne disease infecting a person simultaneously.

He advised visitors to check daily for ticks and to be alert to the possibility of tick-borne diseases once they return home.

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne disease in the United States.

Ticks may also transmit other tick-borne diseases to workers in these and other regions of the country.

This gives them time to develop antibodies to tick-borne diseases and adapt to their new environment, particularly the bitter cold winters.

Tick-borne diseases are common in dogs.

The tick-borne diseases are just as difficult to deal with in household pets, particularly dogs, as in human beings.

The groups often also find that the dogs carry tick-borne diseases and parasites due to the lack of proper preventative treatments.

Tick-borne diseases are diseases or illnesses transmitted by ticks.

Tick paralysis is the only tick-borne disease that is not caused by an infectious organism.

With a vaccine not available to protect humans from the tick-borne diseases, the focus is on holding the spread of Lyme and ehrlichiosis at bay.

In some parts of the world, tick bites may cause other tick-borne diseases, such as South African tick-bite fever.

A number of tick-borne diseases can be transmitted by I. ricinus to a variety of mammal hosts.

Both are tick-borne diseases.