find inside your TV when it’s broken. The only sound I could hear was the ticking of a clock. I hadn’t noticed it when I had woken up in this odd place. It was once silent‚ but now the ticking was louder than before‚ as if it was in my head. “Tick-tock‚ tick-tock”‚ I repeated in my head. I shut my eyes‚ thinking that I was only in a dream. I sat there for minutes at a time‚ and when I opened my eyes the place was still the same. I started to worry‚ but I did not panic. I thought and thought and thought
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burgdorferi‚ and is spread through the bite of infected ticks. In the United States‚ there are two coastal ticks that spread the disease in the east and west. The blacklegged tick‚ or deer tick‚ spreads it in the northeastern‚ north-atlantic. The western blacklegged tick spreads the disease on the west coast. Ticks can attach to any part of the human body but are often found in hard-to-see areas such as the groin‚ armpits‚ and scalp. In most cases‚ the tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours or more before
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Research paper about vector organisms such as ticks and mosquitoes and ways to remove them. Vector Organisms and the Diseases They Carry Vector organisms are parasites that transmit various diseases. Two vector organisms are ticks and mosquitoes. These two vector organisms transmit many well-known diseases. Through most of this essay‚ I will be explaining these two different organisms and the diseases that they carry. First‚ I will be explaining deer ticks. Ticks are small spider-like organisms that attach
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outside where long clothing that covers up almost all of your skin. This makes it harder for ticks or any other insects carrying the disease to burrow into your skin and use it as a shelter. Another very easy prevention for Lyme Disease is to avoid areas that are known to have insects that carry this disease. The most common places to find these insects is rural or suburban areas. The most common time for ticks to come out are when it is an unusual warm day like 65 degrees in November. They are more
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Lyme diseases is an infectious bacterial disease transmitted through the bite of the blacklegged tick. It is named after the neighboring towns of Lyme and old Lyme‚ Connecticut. The first reported cases of Lyme disease came from these towns in 1975. Although‚ it was not discovered that the disease was a tick-born disease until 1978 by Allen Steere. Today it is the most common disease caused by ticks throughout the east coast and California. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Lyme Disease Introduction & Symptoms | Causes & Treatments | Recommended Web Sites Lyme disease is transmitted by tiny ticks of the Ixodidae family and afflicts about 10‚000 people yearly. Initially identified in a group of children in Lyme‚ Conn.‚ the disease has now been found in nearly all states and 18 other countries. About 90 percent of cases are reported in three areas: the northeast and mid-Atlantic states (Massachusetts to Maryland)‚ the upper Midwest (Minnesota and
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Environment Removing a Tick Lyme Disease It seems like everyone has their own home remedy for removing ticks‚ such as using heat or even using nail polish. But according to the CDC (Center for Disease Control)‚ the proper technique to remove a tick is using fine tipped tweezers and to pull upward without twisting to prevent the tick’s mouthparts from remaining in the skin. Then finish the process with cleaning the area where the tick was attached using rubbing alcohol or soap and water
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this illness. These microorganisms are transmitted to humans through ticks that belong to the Ixodes genus‚ like the deer tick. These ticks are normally uninfected; they only acquire the bacteria when they bite infected animals. Once they get infected‚ ticks move on to other hosts‚ including humans‚ and they transmit Borrelia burgdorferi when they bite their host and their saliva (containing the bacteria) enters the host’s body. Ticks must be attached to their hosts up to 48 hours for them to transmit
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Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that spreads throughout the body from the bite of a tick. Lyme disease is a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi (B. burgdorferi) and the body’s immune response to the infection (Meyerhoff‚ 2013). Ticks pick up B. burgdorferi from another host such as deer or mice; they then transfer it to humans (Lyme disease‚ n.d.). B burgdorferi is carried in the midgut of the tick and is transferred to a human in the form of spirochete (Meyerhoff‚ 2013). A spirochete is
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our wrists. “But time is tied to the wrists or kept in a box‚ ticking with impatience.”(Page 864) In this statement‚ it shows how he finds it hard to understand why we keep track of time in that way and because we keep it in that way‚ time begins to tick impatiently. In conclusion‚ the theme of this poem shows how everyday items can be described or viewed in such a different way from another perspective. Such things as objects‚ feelings‚ and time can be held in such a different viewpoint from two
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