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Lyme Disease advisory: Check your dog, check yourself
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Lyme Disease advisory: Check your dog, check yourself

  • MARY JANE HEPPE, For the Hood River News
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It has been 42 years since a few doctors from Yale visited Lyme, Conn., to examine 60 children who were suffering oddly with joint pain, only to coin a name for an apparently new illness called “Lyme arthritis” (although the bacterium has been around for at least a thousand years).

Reduce your exposure to summer ticks
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Reduce your exposure to summer ticks

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Like it or not, warm weather has arrived in North Central Oregon, and with the hot temperatures of summer comes comes the increased likelihood that you will come in contact with ticks. Reducing exposure to ticks is the best defense against Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other tick-borne infections: DEET, showers, and tick checks can help stop ticks.