Lyme Disease Association, Inc. - Prevention & Control

Prevention & Control

The LDA has as one of its goals to stop the spread of Lyme & Other Tick-borne diseases. Tick checks are very important as is proper tick removal (see LymeR Primer brochure). The following links may be helpful in addressing what is happening in the area of prevention and control. LDA does not endorse products.

10 Facts About Lyme Disease
Anyone can download & copy this page in its entirety to distribute.

Protect Yourself: Things We Wish We Had Known About Lyme Disease
In English En Español

FREE Prevention Poster

Download and print CALDA/LDA prevention poster for your use! Click on the link. Then, right mouse click over the picture. Choose "Save Picture As" and save it to your computer to print out.
Children's version

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LDA does not endorse or sponsor products. Material is presented to help people gain quick access to products which they may or may not choose to use.

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Prevention article & radio Interview with Pat Smith on Health in 30 with Barbara Ficarra, RN WRCR AM 1300 Radio Rockland. Listen here!

Lyme Disease: A Tick Check in Time Might Save You From Lyme

by Patricia V. Smith

from Health in 30

STOPticks.org
STOP offers educational and prevention programs to schools, public and private employers. Whether your interested in property management or personal protection, STOP can show you how to keep your family safe this year.

MaxForce Bait Box - Do an end run around ticks CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
Lyme disease is a painful disease. First diagnosed in 1977, it has spread for several reasons — but mostly because more people are living in areas that contain habitats favorable to the ticks that transmit the disease organism and the animals that host them. Many areas in the Northeast are, to use the words of health officials, “hyper-endemic.” But Lyme disease is not uncommon in areas of the Mid-Atlantic or the Midwest, either. And its range is growing.

Tackling Ticks That Spread Lyme Disease
If just thinking about ticks makes you squeamish, then you'll want to stay away from Dolores Hill's lab in Beltsville, Maryland. There, in tiny glass vials and Styrofoam containers, Hill keeps several hundred blacklegged deer ticks, scientifically known as Ixodes scapularis.

A parasitologist for USDA's Agricultural Research Service, Hill collects the blood-sucking ticks as part of a 5-year project to biologically control the pests with microscopic roundworms, called nematodes.

Damminix
Damminix Tick Tubes® are biodegradable, cardboard tubes filled with permethrin treated cotton balls. Mice collect the cotton to build their nests. Deer ticks that feed on mice in the Spring and the Fall are exposed to permethrin and killed.

Last Modified: May 07, 2009