{"id":6485,"date":"2018-12-13T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T21:41:20","slug":"invasive-tick-could-spread-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/invasive-tick-could-spread-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive tick could spread to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jme\/advance-articles\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Journal of Medical Entomology<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0December 13, 2018 <\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-12\/esoa-prf120618.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from the Entomological Society of America)<br \/>\nThe Asian longhorned tick, first reported in New Jersey in early 2018, could easily spread into across much of eastern North America and the west coast. Researchers identified the invasive tick\u2019s potential range by comparing North American habitat with the insect\u2019s East Asian native territory, using climate data from regions around the world where the tick currently is established. The tick is known to transmit disease to humans in Asia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6747a3.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Related November 30, 2018, report from the Centres from Disease Control <\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>For information: <\/strong>Joe Rominiecki, Entomological\u00a0Society\u00a0of America\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jrominiecki@entsoc.org\" target=\"_blank\">jrominiecki@entsoc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal of Medical Entomology Published\u00a0December 13, 2018 \u00a0(News release from the Entomological Society of America) The Asian longhorned tick, first reported in New Jersey in early 2018, could easily spread into across much of eastern North America and the west coast. Researchers identified the invasive tick\u2019s potential range by comparing North American habitat with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1GB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}