{"id":14118,"date":"2021-06-04T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2021-06-04T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:08:26","slug":"talking-ticks-with-dr-vett-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/talking-ticks-with-dr-vett-lloyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking ticks with Dr. Vett Lloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vett-Image.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vett-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vett-Image.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vett-Image-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mount Allison researcher Dr. Vett Lloyd.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though Vett Lloyd spends a good amount of her time studying ticks and the diseases they carry around, she\u2019s a strong proponent of getting outdoors this spring and summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mount Allison professor and researcher runs the Lloyd Tick Lab studying vector biology, primarily focusing on ticks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Hear an interview with Vett Lloyd from Tantramar Report on May 28:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Vett-Lloyd-on-ticks-May-19-2021.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe ticks are here,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cThey&#8217;re not going anywhere. We just have to get used to them and practice some really easy things to keep ourselves safer.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With that in mind, Lloyd shared some \u2018best practices\u2019 when it comes to keeping yourself safe from ticks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BUG SPRAY<br><\/strong>\u201cBug spray is really designed for mosquitoes,\u201d says Lloyd, \u201cbut there are some sprays that say they&#8217;re good for ticks. They will give you partial protection.\u201d Lloyd says just \u201cfollow the instructions on the label.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TICK-REPELLENT CLOTHING<br><\/strong>\u201cIf you&#8217;re working in the bush, if you&#8217;re hunting, camping, that sort of long exposure, you can get clothing that has permethrin\u2014a tick repellent\u2014embedded in it. That works quite well,\u201d says Lloyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RUBBER BOOTS<br><\/strong>\u201cIf you&#8217;re just tromping around in long grass, and you&#8217;re not particularly worried about being fashion-forward, rubber boots work remarkably well,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cSomething a farmer once said to me when I started this work is ticks don&#8217;t like rubber. I haven&#8217;t tested that scientifically, but from my experience, it actually does seem to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAILY TICK CHECKS<br><\/strong>\u201cProbably the most important thing you can do is a tick check,\u201d says Lloyd. She recommends it becomes part of an evening routing. \u201cYou know, you brush your teeth, you usually change into night clothes. At some point there&#8217;s a period where you&#8217;re not wearing clothes,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cEither get someone to look at you or stand in front of a mirror. What you&#8217;re looking for are things that look like freckles. But it&#8217;s a freckle that wasn&#8217;t there the day before, and it&#8217;s a freckle with legs. The legs really are the giveaway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey are small,\u201d she says. \u201cThey don&#8217;t look like much until you have a good look at them. But they do have legs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And a tick check should include more than just the obvious, says Lloyd. \u201cCheck armpits, various cracks, crevices throughout the body,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cI think most people can probably figure out where the cracks and crevices are in their body without me having to explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GETTING RID OF A TICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you spot a tick, the next step is removing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere&#8217;s a whole mystique about how to remove a tick,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cPeople swear by technique A versus technique B. I&#8217;ve even seen social shaming about tick removal techniques. Generally speaking, as long as the tick gets out of you, it&#8217;s all better than the tick not getting out of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lloyd says tweezers will do the trick, and it\u2019s similar to removing a splinter. \u201cIf you just can&#8217;t face that you can go to a health care provider and get them to take it out of you,\u201d says Lloyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either way, Lloyd recommends getting all of the tick, and getting it out intact. \u201cYou don&#8217;t want to shred the tick,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cYou don&#8217;t want to burn it, or strangle it, or coat it in Vaseline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s because a dying tick poses a last bit of danger. \u201cIts little final revenge is to spit its gut contents into your bloodstream,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cAnd its gut contents happen to be where all the bad bacteria are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those bad bacteria could include Lyme disease, the number one fear when it comes to ticks. But not all ticks carry Lyme disease, and not even all species of tick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are two types of ticks that are fairly common in this area that end up on people,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cThe wood tick or dog tick, and that&#8217;s the less bad kind. Or the black-legged tick, also called the deer tick. That&#8217;s the kind that carries Lyme disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Deer-ticks-side-by-side.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Deer-ticks-side-by-side.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14120\" width=\"681\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Deer-ticks-side-by-side.png 940w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Deer-ticks-side-by-side-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Deer-ticks-side-by-side-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A black legged tick and a well-fed black legged tick.  Photo: Lloyd Tick Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wood or dog tick will have irregular white patches on its back, says Lloyd. And the deer tick or black-legged tick will have \u201csometimes orange, sometimes grey, but no white on the back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those unsure about identifying a tick themselves, Lloyd says she welcomes pictures emailed to her lab (ticktesting (at) mta (dot) ca) for identification purposes. Also, etick.ca accepts photo submissions, and compiles data from identified ticks into a public database and map, which is morbidly fascinating to peruse. (Out of the 29 stick.ca submissions from New Brunswick in May, 19 were identified at backlogged ticks, and ten of those were found on humans.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-10017-dog-tick.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-10017-dog-tick-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14122\" width=\"675\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-10017-dog-tick-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-10017-dog-tick-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-10017-dog-tick-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-10017-dog-tick.jpg 1069w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dog tick. Photo: Lloyd Tick Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lloyd says that while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etick.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">etick.ca<\/a> will not test ticks, they will identify it and send public health information relevant to the species in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOT ALL DEER TICKS\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course not all deer ticks carry Lyme disease. Though in some places, the chances are astonishingly high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe percent of deer ticks that have Lyme disease differs in different regions,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cIt&#8217;s basically higher the further south you get. So South Shore [of Nova Scotia], you&#8217;re a bit over 50%. Anywhere in New Brunswick, you&#8217;re talking 10 to 20%, depending on where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have an actual tick that you are concerned with, and would like it tested, Lloyd\u2019s lab also offers tick testing through a commercial service called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geneticks.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geneticks<\/a>, for about $50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are a few areas where Public Health will still test it,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cSo you could try them, because that&#8217;s free. Some veterinarians have arrangements where they can get free testing through public health, but it&#8217;s sort of hit or miss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPublic Health is just monitoring areas of emerging disease. From their point of view, once they know there&#8217;s a problem, they don&#8217;t have to monitor it anymore. Which isn&#8217;t ideal for the people living in the areas with problems,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cThe Public Health program is a surveillance program. It&#8217;s not designed to address the risk of tick borne disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-04-at-5.58.58-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-04-at-5.58.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14123\" width=\"661\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-04-at-5.58.58-PM.png 1025w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-04-at-5.58.58-PM-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-04-at-5.58.58-PM-768x536.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>2019 tick stats for the Lloyd Tick Lab. Source: lloydticklab.ca:  &#8220;Figure 2: Numbers of Ixodes scapularis [black legged ticks or deer ticks] returned from each of the seven New Brunswick Health Regions. Data presented includes only the 452 Ixodes scapularis ticks which were removed from hosts in New Brunswick that had no recent travel out-of-province.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more abundant ticks become, the less available is tick testing, it seems. It\u2019s something that comes down to resources, says Lloyd. \u201cIn areas of Nova Scotia, where ticks are just so abundant, the public health recommendation is to keep the ticks in case it needs to be tested later, and just wait to see if you get sick, or have a rash or have a fever,\u201d says Lloyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat doesn&#8217;t necessarily work that well for people,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause depending on the person, they can be quite worried.\u201d And catching Lyme disease early is a big advantage in treatment. \u201cTreating later stage Lyme disease is a lot tougher than preventing it from happening in the first place,\u201d says Lloyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>REDUCING TICK POPULATIONS AROUND YOUR HOME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are some things people can do on their properties to reduce tick populations. Keeping grass short around your house helps, says Lloyd. And acidic mulches can be helpful, too. \u201cThey work in a number of different ways. The cedar mulches smell bad to ticks. And they also wick the water away. So it&#8217;s just an uncomfortable place for ticks to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are pest control companies that will spray for ticks, but Lloyd says this is something that mostly happens in industrial settings, and can also impact populations of beneficials insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the ways ticks move around is on other animals, like mice and birds. \u201cIf you think about making a house that is mouse-proof and bird-proof\u2026 It\u2019s a bit extreme and also a lousy way to live.\u201d<br>It\u2019s about weighing risks and benefits, says Lloyd, something we are more accustomed to doing in the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne could stay inside quivering in fear, but it is spring and getting outside is really important for mental health and physical health. So we should do it. And the risk of ticks can be managed fairly easily through being aware of the risk, bug spray, tick checks, testing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WHY DOES NOVA SCOTIA HAVE SO MANY TICKS?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNova Scotia wins the Canadian \u2018Most Ticks Per Person\u2019 award,\u201d says Lloyd, which doesn\u2019t bode well for the Tantramar area, as immediate neighbours. But this inauspicious title begs the question: why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt&#8217;s primarily climate driven, due to climate change,\u201d says Lloyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ticks were introduced to Canada on birds, says Lloyd. \u201cAs they migrate north in the spring, they would be coming from areas with lots of ticks. Traditionally, the ticks would drop off, they&#8217;d live for a summer. They could certainly cause problems and cause disease by biting people during that time. But when we had harsher winters, most of the ticks died off\u2026 And the other side of that is the wild mammals they lived on, the wild mice and so forth, were also having a tough time with the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These days, \u201cthe climate has gotten easier, so the ticks are surviving,\u201d says Lloyd. \u201cAnd every adult female who gets through the winter, she finds an adult male, they find blood, and then that female can produce about 3000 little baby ticks. So that means the population can spike really, really quickly once they get going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we see is that the tick populations are increasing in the south. Basically, the further south you are, the more ticks there are. And they sort of peter out as you go up north,\u201d says Lloyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe problem is that the human population also likes the warmth, so we&#8217;re clustered across the southern border as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Vett Lloyd spends a good amount of her time studying ticks and the diseases they carry around, she\u2019s a strong proponent of getting outdoors this spring and summer. 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