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Bodywork: With spring, worries about tick bites

May 18, 2021

What signs of tick-borne illnesses should you be on the lookout for this spring?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: bodywork, bourne, Chakravarty, disease, Eliza, illness, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, scientist-news, sick, tick, tick bites, ticks

Can insects transmit coronavirus?

May 12, 2020

Covid-19 and other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS are spread from person to person through tiny viral droplets, not through blood.

Filed Under: COVID-19 News, News Tagged With: bite, blood, bugs, Chakravarty, coronavirus, covid19, Eliza, insect, mosquito, mosquitoes, mosquitos, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, Pandemic, Prescott, scientist-news, stephen, ticks, virus

Debugging: How to avoid insect-borne diseases

May 22, 2018

The CDC reports that the number of Americans infected by insect-borne illnesses has more than tripled since 2004.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2018, bites, bugs, climate change, DEET, disease, global, insects, medicine, mosquities, mosquito, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, protect yourself, research, rocky mountain spotted fever, spread, stephen prescott, summer, temperature, ticks, tips, vector, water, West Nile, wet

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