Plum Island developing vaccines to keep world safe from foreign animal diseases - SMTP

http://tinyurl.com/ax9k9wt - Tick diseases can be debilitating, life changing

Just ask Janice Guin, who suffered from both Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease. Both diseases are treatable but one of the big problems is identifying them. Guin, 65, lives in northwestern Tuscaloosa County and is a retired state employee.

Lyme disease counting is uncertain, imprecise

A fox roams a small forested area in Dutchess County, where researchers are studying the role of predators in Lyme disease. Foxes help control the population of mice, a prime rodent that infects ticks with the Lyme pathogen. / Taal Levi/courtesy photo ...and more »

Plum Island developing vaccines to keep world safe from foreign animal diseases

PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. â€" It may be intriguing when talking about the nation's only research lab for highly-infectious foreign animal diseases to bounce around conspiracy theories abo ut Lyme disease, West Nile virus and the infamous “Montauk Monster,” all ...and more »