Bed Bugs are Back
The Toronto (Canada) public health department reviewed calls received by the agency and surveyed city pest control businesses (n=34), after noting an increased number of complaints about bed bugs in homeless shelters in 2003. . . .
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Lyme Disease Reminder
With warm weather in many states comes the risk for contact with deer and the black-legged tick which can carries bacteria associated with Lyme disease. Infected Ixodes ticks (less than 1 mm in length) can transmit Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal bacteria to humans if the tick stays attached to the skin for 24 to 36 hours. This article highlights content for patient education. . . .
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