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A plague of ticks, tick-borne diseases, and poli-ticks

Part 2: What can be done to better manage and minimize the risks of tick-borne diseases in Nova Scotia?

July 6, 2021 By Joan Baxter 8 Comments

Part 2. In this second article of a two-part series on ticks and tick-borne diseases in Nova Scotia, we look at community involvement in the fight to have Lyme disease recognized as the serious health risk it is, what the federal and provincial governments are doing about it, and at what we need to know […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Investigation Tagged With: Association of Medical Microbiologists and infectious Disease, black-legged ticks, Borrelia bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, Brenda Sterling-Goodwin, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), climate change, COVID-19, deer ticks, Department of Health and Wellness, dogs, eTick, Federal Framework on Lyme Disease, Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey, House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, International Diseases Society of America, Ixodes scapularis, Lloyd Tick Lan, long haul COVID-19, Lunenburg, Lununburg Lyme Association, Lyme disease, LYMERix®, Mount Allison University, National Microbiology Laboratory, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Western Health Zone, Ontario, permethrin, Pictou, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Randy Delorey, Rob Murray, Robbin Lindsay, Robert Strang, spirochetes, tick paralysis, tick-borne disease, ticks, vaccine, Vett Lloyd, West Nile, Zika

A plague of ticks, tick-borne diseases, and poli-ticks

Part 1: Tick populations in Nova Scotia are exploding largely because of climate change and the province is Canada’s “hot spot” for Lyme disease. So, how is the province monitoring and managing tick-borne diseases and health risks?

July 5, 2021 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

This is the first article in a two-part series about ticks and tick-borne diseases in Nova Scotia — what we know about them and what we’re doing about them. Part 1 looks at some of the reasons for the tick population explosion and the increased incidence of Lyme disease, and what public health authorities are […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Investigation Tagged With: American dog tick, Andrew Rankin, antibiotics, Antigonish County, Atlantic Veterinary College, black-legged ticks, Borrelia bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, Brenda Sterling-Goodwin, Brian Owens, canine, canine Lyme disease, chronic Lyme disease, climate change, Companion Animal Parasite Council, Connecticut, COVID long haulers, COVID-1, deer ticks, Department of Health and Wellness, dogs, foxes, HIV, Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), Ixodes scapularis, Jason Stull, Lloyd Tick Lab, long haul COVID-19, Lunenburg, Lyme carditis, Lyme disease, migratory animals, migratory birds, moose, Mount Allison University, neuroborreliosis, New Brunswick, Nicholas H. Ogden, Nova Scotia government, Ontario, Ötzi, Ötzi the Iceman, Public Health Agency of Canada, rabbit tick, Ralph Hawkins, Robert Strang, rodents, rodetns, SaltWire, tick nymphs, tick-borne disease, ticks, University of Calgary, University of Prince Edward Island, Vett Lloyd, voyotes, white-tailed deer, wood tick, Yvette d'Entremont

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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