{"id":4826,"date":"2018-06-04T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/unc-experts-respond-to-cdc2019s-advisory-regarding-increase-in-mosquito-and-tick-borne-illnesses\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:25:36","slug":"unc-experts-respond-to-cdc2019s-advisory-regarding-increase-in-mosquito-and-tick-borne-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/unc-experts-respond-to-cdc2019s-advisory-regarding-increase-in-mosquito-and-tick-borne-illnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC experts respond to CDC\u2019s advisory regarding increase in mosquito and tick borne illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Republished from the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health Care Newsroom.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The CDC recently issued a report on the rising rates of tick and mosquito borne illnesses across the United States. In an interview with CNN, Myron Cohen, MD, spoke about the importance of the advisory and increasing public awareness. David Weber, MD, MPH, spoke with the New York Times about how to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-section\">\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/unc-experts-respond-to-cdc2019s-advisory-regarding-increase-in-mosquito-and-tick-borne-illnesses-image2.jpeg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Myron Cohen, MD, Director, Institute for Global Health &amp; Infectious Diseases, said Zika cases from 2016 indicate how quickly a previously-little known disease can sweep through the population.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;Zika shows us the potential for an emerging pathogen that&#8217;s vector-borne to enter a population &#8212; like as it did in Puerto Rico and some of the other territories and a little bit in Florida &#8212; and kind of sweep through the population,&#8221; Cohen said. &#8220;So it shows how vulnerable we are if the vectors are there in sufficient concentration, and we have not seen the disease before in the population, it can be a fairly profound epidemic,&#8221; he said. <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/01\/health\/ticks-mosquito-borne-diseases-cdc-study\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story from CNN.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">In response to the CDC&#8217;s report, David Weber, MD, MPH, medical director of UNC Hospitals\u2019 departments of epidemiology and occupational health service, spoke with the New York Times, outlining ways to protect yourself from tick and mosquito bites.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">&#8220;Mind where you\u2019re going, and avoid areas that are especially attractive to ticks, like tall grassy fields,&#8221; said Weber. \u201cTicks don\u2019t fly and they don\u2019t jump.They live on grasses, and when a human goes by, they leave the grass and attach themselves to the human.\u201d <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/01\/well\/mosquitoes-ticks-lyme-disease-protection.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story from The New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>The CDC recently issued a report on the rising rates of tick and mosquito borne illnesses across the United States. 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