Watch the latest video from the UKHSA: The UK’s battle against invasive ticks and mosquitoes (youtube.com) It includes filming with scientists who are working on ticks and mosquitoes, both outside and in the laboratory. There is a discussion of the impacts of climate change and how we are altering the environment via green urban pathways and re-wilding.
The first 11 minutes is about ticks:
- An introduction to the Medical Entomology team,
- at 3:00 Climate change risks of VBDs
- 3:45 The Tick Surveillance team
- 6:30 Monitoring ticks
- 7:00 How ticks quest – how they find a blood meal
- 8:20 Back to the lab and identifying the ticks and testing them for Borrelia
- 9:25 Working with universities
- 9:40 Logging wildlife that might be spreading ticks – what is out there?
- 11:00 onwards is mosquitoes until . .
- 19:36 when we move to climate change and the impact of vector-borne disease
- 21.48 Ticks again followed by
- 22:38 a summing up of the risks for the future.
Having watch all that, do you have a tick remover?!
Don’t forget that having removed a tick, you can send it to the Tick Surveillance Scheme and contribute to our knowledge of ticks and tick-borne disease.
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