POUGHKEEPSIE- The Dutchess County Tick Task Force announced that it will host an educational event to engage residents in awareness and protection from ticks and tick-borne diseases.
The event will be held Wednesday, July 12, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at The Henry A. Wallace
Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. The event will include both live and virtual presentations from the following top research professionals:
- 10:00 a.m.- Mason Kauffman, Fighting Lyme Disease with One Health and Integrated Tick Management
- 10:40 a.m.- Monica Embers, Persistent Lyme Disease: Supportive Evidence and Potential Solutions
- 11:20 a.m.- Saravanan Thangamani, Community-Engaged tick Surveillance to Track the Emergence of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in New York State
- 12:00 p.m.- Holly Ahern, SUNY Adirondack, Maternal-Fetal Transmission of Lyme Disease and Babesia – What Present and Future Moms Need to Know
- 12:40 p.m.- Monika Gulia-Nuss, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases in the Western USA
- 1:20 p.m.- Richard Horowitz, High Dose Pulse Dapsone Combination Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Lyme and Associated Co-Infections
If you are unable to join, the event will be recorded and posted on the Tick Task Force website.
