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Learn core principles of risk communication during emerging vector-borne disease threats, including strategies for clear, actionable messaging and effective audience engagement.

Learn about these diseases and how you can protect your horse and yourself.

Learn evidence-based strategies to prevent vector bites, practice safe outdoor work, and communicate protective measures effectively across diverse settings.

Highlighting the mosquito life cycle, explaining each stage, from egg to adult, and how some species bite and spread disease

Learn practical strategies for motivating protective behaviors. Explore motivational interviewing and behavior change frameworks to guide prevention conversations and support healthier decisions.

Explore the history of Lyme disease, from its early discovery to key scientific breakthroughs. Learn how decades of research have shaped today's understanding, prevention, and treatment.

Gain essential knowledge of U.S. vectors, disease transmission, and surveillance, and learn to translate findings into effective education and outreach.

Understand how fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes spread disease to dogs and cats; recognize common health risks; and learn practical steps to protect your pets.

In 2022, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article that stated Pennsylvania has the most cases of Lyme Disease in the United States.

Explore how centuries of human land-use choices—from farming to suburban growth—shaped the rise of tick-borne diseases and what this means for people, wildlife, and the environment.

Tick identification, life history, and distribution; tick-borne diseases; and prevention

Article discussing the blood-borne parasite Theileria orientalis, its transmission by the Asian Longhorned Tick, and considerations when moving cattle.

Mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases, such as eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus encephalitis, may continue to be an issue in the fall as long as temperatures and weather permit.

Two cases of locally acquired malaria have been found in the United States in the past couple of months with one case occurring in the nearby state of New Jersey.

Learn how to identify the American dog tick and understand what it is feeding on to help limit your exposure to vector-borne diseases.

Lonestar ticks are making their way up into the northeastern United States. Find out how you can identify them!

Blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, are some of the most common ticks in the northeast United States, so how can you identify them?

Get to know the Brown dog tick’s distinguishing characteristics, what it feeds on, and its active seasons, to help avoid exposure to vector-borne disease.

Explore the characteristics of the recently introduced invasive species Asian longhorned tick and how it is already causing infestations in herds of animals across the eastern United States.

Aprenda a identificar las especies de garrapatas más comunes en Pensilvania, como las garrapatas de patas negras, las garrapatas americanas del perro, las garrapatas estrella solitaria, las garrapatas marrones del perro, y las garrapatas de cuernos largos.

Al oír hablar de la garrapata estrella solitaria, es posible que piense que solo habita en Texas; no obstante, con el aumento de las temperaturas, estas garrapatas están atravesando los Montes Apalaches y llegando a Pensilvania. Identificar una garrapata estrella solitaria es fácil. Aprenda a identificarlas con este video.

Conozca las características distintivas de la garrapata marrón del perro, de qué se alimenta y las épocas del año en las que está activa para limitar su exposición a las enfermedades que transmite.

Las garrapatas de patas negras, también conocidas como garrapatas del ciervo, son algunas de las garrapatas más comunes en el noreste de Estados Unidos, así que ¿cómo puede identificarlas?

Aprenda a identificar la garrapata americana del perro y a saber de qué se alimenta para limitar su exposición a las enfermedades que transmiten.

Conozca las características distintivas de la garrapata de cuernos largos, una especie invasora recientemente introducida que está infectando rebaños de animales en el este de Estados Unidos.