{"id":9228,"date":"2019-08-02T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ticks\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2019-08-02T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:58:11","slug":"new-national-pest-alert-focuses-on-ticks-and-tickborne-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/news\/new-national-pest-alert-focuses-on-ticks-and-tickborne-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"New National Pest Alert focuses on Ticks and Tickborne Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p><small class=\"details\">November 17, 2016<\/small><\/p>\n<p>The North Central IPM Center, a dedicated group of experts in the field of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) research and communications representing the upper mid-western states has just released its newest National Pest Alert &#8212; Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBD) pose a major public health concern nationally. Eleven of the seventeen tick-borne diseases in the U.S. are known to infect humans. Lyme disease accounts for over 90% of all reported human vector-borne disease, with an estimated 300,000 cases annually. TBDs are most often spread by the bite of ticks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The informative 2 page bulletin is now available for download and re-distribution from:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncipmc.org\/action\/alerts\/ticks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.ncipmc.org\/action\/alerts\/ticks.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/maps_ncipmc_alert-Full.png\" rel=\"lightbox[9228]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9368\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/maps_ncipmc_alert-Full.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/maps_ncipmc_alert-Full.png 788w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/maps_ncipmc_alert-Full-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/maps_ncipmc_alert-Full-768x690.png 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/maps_ncipmc_alert-Full-364x327.png 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/maps_ncipmc_alert-Full-500x449.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 17, 2016 The North Central IPM Center, a dedicated group of experts in the field of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) research and communications representing the upper mid-western states has just released its newest National Pest Alert &#8212; Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. &#8220;Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBD) pose a major public health concern nationally. Eleven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":9359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[460,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external-media","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}