There are places where the public can have tick testing conducted and/or identified to see if they contain the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, and/or other disease organisms that can infect humans or pets. There are generally charges for these services. LDA does not make recommendations: whether you should have ticks tested about specific testing or […]
Tick Removal Video provided by University of Manitoba Kateryn Rochon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor – Veterinary Entomology No tick bite is a good tick bite! Frequent tick checks allow for detection of ticks quickly. The sooner a tick is removed properly, the less chance of disease transmission. Watch video below to view proper tick removal. LDA […]
Steven Schutzer, MDIt is well known to the medical community that Lyme disease testing methods are highly inaccurate. The only FDA approved Lyme tests available are antibody-based tests, which are the current standard, but are known to produce both false positives, and the more devastating false negatives. For example, it can take weeks for antibody […]