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Understanding West Nile and Lyme disease
Jun 25, 2024 - ÆßÃõ¼º½ - 2-minutes
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Diseases transmitted by arthropods, like mosquitos and ticks, are called vector-borne diseases. In this 2-minute video, infectious disease specialist Dr. Mark Loeb discusses the symptoms and the complications of these diseases and how to protect yourself.
You can learn more about the prevalence of Lyme disease across Canada with this developed by Health Canada.
The 2017 photograph above depicts the pathognomonic erythematous rash in the pattern of a “bull’s-eye”, which manifested at the site of a tick bite on this Maryland woman’s posterior right upper arm, who’d subsequently contracted Lyme disease.[1]
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Dr. Loeb is an infectious disease specialist and a professor in the Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine. His work focuses on reducing the spread of viral infectious diseases and measuring impacts of viral infection on the general population.
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1. Author: James Gathany. This media comes from the ’s (PHIL), with identification number .
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