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Save the Date--Webinar, Emerging Issues in Tickborne Diseases, June 13, 2019 |Lyme Disease | Lyme Disease | CDC

Lyme Disease | Lyme Disease | CDC

all life stages of Ixodes scapularis--larva, nymph, adult male, and adult female. Dime in background for scale.



HHS/CDC/NIH/FDA invite you to save the date for an upcoming webinar:
Emerging Issues in Tickborne Diseases
Thursday, June 13, 2019 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm EDT
Agenda
Dr. Paul Mead, CDC—Welcome and introduction
Denise Bonilla, USDA/APHIS—Update on the Asian longhorned tick (H. longicornis
Dr. William Nicholson, CDC—Alpha-gal allergy following tick bite: What do we really know?
Dr. Kevin Esvelt, MIT—Mice against ticks: A community-guided effort to prevent Lyme disease via gene editing
Dr. Ben Beard, CDC—National Strategy for vector-borne diseases
The week of the webinar, participant call-in information will be provided in the “HHS Special Webinars on Lyme and Tickborne Diseases” box at http://www.cdc.gov/Lyme.

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