PPT-10. Stings, bites, ticks & Weil’s disease

What causes stings and bites How do you treat these How do you remove a tick What is Lyme disease What are the dangers of drinking dirty water What might you monitor about a casualty if you are with them for a long time. PairingComputation Outline Weil/TatePairings PairingComputation FrederikVercauterenMAGMA-UniversityofSydneyESAT/COSIC-K.U.Leuven-Belgium TheMathematicsofPairingsI Weil/TatePairings PairingComputation : . A PRACTICAL APPROACH. Epidemiology. 2,00,000 snake bites and 15-20,000 deaths per year. Males : Females :: 2:1. Majority of bites occur on the lower extremities. 50% of bites by venomous snakes are dry bites –negligible . Dewey M. Caron. dmcaron@udel.edu. K. Garvey Photo. Bee Stings 101. . They HURT and.... . . we REACT. NO we should not fear them. Because……. They enable the bee to protect itself. Coping with Bee Stings. Normal and Allergic Reactions. If you work with bees,…. there is one certainty – you will be stung.. Even despite the very best defenses, you will be stung:. Bee stings can have a variety of consequences that must be taken seriously.. Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2016-2017. Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. …. Ticks. Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. * What . do ticks look like?. Maureen Brophy, MPH. Ph.D. Student. Outline. What are ticks?. Biology. Ecology. Disease transmission. Rocky Mountain . spotted fever. What is a tick?. Arachnids, not insects. Related to spiders. External parasites of mammals, birds, and reptiles. Veterinary Parasitology. Tick - Anatomy. Capitulum (Gnathostome) = “head”. Basis capitulum. Palps. Chelicerae. Hypostome. Tick - Anatomy. Idiosoma. = “Body”. Body with unsegmented abdomen. Legs. Bites and stings. A short course to learn how to help someone who has just been bitten or stung.. Learning outcomes. I can identify when a casualty is having an allergic reaction to a bite or sting. I can provide first aid treatment for a casualty who has been bitten or stung. an insect at one time or another. It’s an unpleasant experience that people hope not to repeat, but for most people the damage in�icted is only temporary pain. Only a very limited por S L, D H. G,S N, L (F) G evidence of coagulopathy with increased PT (INR(amlodepine 5 mg OD, atenolol 12.5 mg OD andreceived injectable vitamin K; daily FFP infusionscontinued improvement in urine output and liverPeritoneal d Vectorborne. Diseases Unit. Last Updated May 2023. What is a . tickborne. disease and why should you care about it?. People can get a . tickborne. disease when they are bitten by a tick that is infected with a disease agent. Epidemiology. 2,00,000 snake bites and 15-20,000 deaths per year. Males : Females :: 2:1. Majority of bites occur on the lower extremities. 50% of bites by venomous snakes are dry bites –negligible . Schwan TG, Piesman J. Vector Interactions and Molecular Adaptations of Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Associated with Transmission by Ticks. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8(2):115-121. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0802.010198.