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Topic: New York- Coming to A Household Near You!

Tincup
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New Four Year Study To See If Treating Hundreds Of Households in NY Will Help Lessen The Risk Of Lyme Disease in Dutchess County, NY

That's FOUR more years of waiting, with big $$$ involved. Money that could be used to find a cure...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29548888

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TX Lyme Mom
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Good Grief!
Why in the heck would anyone publish a paper about a research project which hasn't even begun yet? Since when is it academic protocol to proceed in this manner?

This sounds more like a "research grant proposal" to me than an article which is ready for publication. Odd. Really odd.

Not only that, but it states: "Prevention of tick-borne diseases in humans is challenging. To date, no prevention strategies have been shown to be consistently effective."

So, what's really going on here, huh?

Let's hope it's not just another boondoggle to waste taxpayer money by researchers who don't have any clue but who simply want to get a piece of the action in order to further their own academic careers. ..... And so it goes.....

Here's the PubMed abstract, so that you can form your own opinion:

Trends Parasitol. 2018 Mar 13. pii: S1471-4922(18)30030-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2018.02.008. [Epub ahead of print]

The Tick Project: Testing Environmental Methods of Preventing Tick-borne Diseases.

Keesing F1, Ostfeld RS2.
Author information
1
Program in Biology, Bard College, Annandale, NY 12504, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
2
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA.

Abstract
Prevention of tick-borne diseases in humans is challenging. To date, no prevention strategies have been shown to be consistently effective. Here, we describe the design of a new large-scale study, involving hundreds of households in Dutchess County, New York, testing whether environmental interventions, applied intensively and over 4 years, can prevent human cases.

KEYWORDS:
Ixodes; Lyme disease; biocontrol; prevention; tick

PMID: 29548888 DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2018.02.008

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