In a first for me, a copy editor decided to replace Amblyomma with Ambystoma. No, the paper is about ticks, I promise!
8yo's favorite GIF is quite appropriate here
We had planned to get these data from IDPH in 2019, but they needed to clean up the addresses by hand, and then 2020 happened, and then and then and then . . . plus, to get the canine data, we had to manually click through the CAPC maps county by county, year by year, disease by disease
Worth it.
We took the kids hiking South Kaibab the day someone died on it. There's no water along the trail and it was hot- I can imagine that if you go in the afternoon and don't prepare, it would be very dangerous
Big public health takeaway - we see almost every TBD diagnosed 12 months out of the year, and across the state. Be safe out there!
And another paper from my lab, this one years in the making! Our best attempt at a comprehensive analysis of all reported TBDs (human) and TBP seroprevalence (dog) in Illinois across the entire reporting period. Spatial clustering to match tick presence, rural risk, and possible reporting bias
Another new paper I got to be involved in! Household experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has been highly heterogeneous, and that affects child behavior impacts
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Alt: Small green cartoon lizard on a mossy log looking at the camera, then waving, with the words Oh! Hiiii Hi
Illinois is known to have established populations of four vector tick species of human health concern: Ixodes scapularis, Dermacentor variabilis, Ambl…
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted youth development; however, limited studies have explored the diverse patterns of household environmen...
