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Tick Bites
UK sources of information and / or support
Patient UK
Has an information leaflet called insect stings and bites.
Tick Alert - from MASTA
The Tick Alert Campaign is warning travellers to 16 central and easternEuropean destinations to avoid tick bites and seek vaccine beforetravel. Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE)-virus carrying ticks are nowendemic from the Baltics to the Mediterranean. TBE is a potentiallylife-threatening viral disease that can lead to meningitis and result inparalysis and death in serious cases.
Tick Bites and Lyme disease
Information from the Health Protection Agency.
Tick Bites
What to do if you are bitten by a tick. From the Scottish Gamekeepers Association.
How to avoid insect bites
Information from the National Travel Health Network and Centre.
See also our Lyme disease page and our immunisation page and our insect bites and stings page.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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Related pages in Patient UK
Patient Support related to this topic (^ top of page)
EuroLyme Lyme Disease ActionPoems and stories related to this topic (^ top of page)
A Tick can be Cross Too!Other - Useful resources (^ top of page)
Pictures, diagrams, photos, images, etc.Evidence based medicine
Online textbooks and journals
A-Z of UK Guidelines
A-Z of Online Videos
Medline
Other good health sites
Medical equipment products related to this topic (^ top of page)
Books related to this topic (^ top of page)
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