We need a national tick strategy, UF Medical Geography researcher Dr. Claudia Ganser argued in a recent paper.
“Historically in the U.S., public health has focused more on mosquitoes versus ticks,” Ganser says. “A lot of the public health infrastructure of surveillance programs that is already in place focuses on mosquitoes rather than ticks,” Ganser says. “The idea behind this project was to take inventory of what we know, to gather what information exists in the regions that have ticks, and to identify the gaps in making things more uniform.”
Find out more about Dr. Ganser’s tick survey work with the Southeastern Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases and UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute at EPI’s NEEDED: A NATIONAL TICK STRATEGY.
Read A Survey of Tick Surveillance and Control Practices in the United States at the Journal of Medical Entomology.