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Webinar: Ixodes Tick-Transmitted Diseases in Europe and North America: Overview and Control Strategies
April 24 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Title: Ixodes Tick Transmitted Diseases in Europe and North America Overview and Control Strategies
Date: Wednesday, 24th April 2024
Time: 9.00 EDT UTC-04 (The webinar is approximately 90 minutes)
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Registration Fee:
Complimentary
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Summary:
Ixodes spp, or hard-bodied ticks, have long been recognized as important vectors of many diseases affecting humans, for example Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis, babesiosis, anaplasmosis etc. With climate change and urbanization, the geographic range of Ixodes is expanding, as well as the risk of tick bites and human infections.
Come meet our experts for a lively discussion on epidemiology, clinical aspects of major Ixodes-transmitted diseases, and preventive measures.
Special thanks to Pfizer for the unrestricted educational grant that helped provide this program.
Webinar Faculty:
Planning Chairs:
Dr. Yen Bui, Chair, PEC, ISTM
Dr. Darvin Scott Smith, Co-Chair, PEC, ISTM
Dr. Lin Chen, Past President, ISTM
Moderator:
Dr. Robert Steffen
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute
WHO Collaborating Centre for Travelers’ Health
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, U.S.A
Speakers:
Dr. Camilla Rothe
Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine Outpatient Department,
Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine,
Ludwig-Maximilians University Hospital Centre, Munich
Dr. Barbra Blair
Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA USA
Dr. Erik Foster, MS, BCE
Medical Entomologist
Entomology and Ecology Activity
Bacterial Diseases Branch
CDC Division of Vector-Borne Diseases