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Excerpt:

Millions of travelers visit the United States every year during
warm months when risk of vector-borne disease is highest. The
epidemiology and geographic distribution of the principal
vector-borne diseases in the United States are reviewed and
recommendations for visitors to reduce their risk of disease are
described. Travel advice should focus on preventing Lyme disease,
anaplasmosis and babesiosis in the northeast and north central
States, West Nile virus disease in western plains States, and
Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia in the southeast;
other diseases and itineraries requiring particular attention are
described. All travelers to the United States should be advised
to practice personal protection against arthropod bites,
including appropriate use of insect repellents, especially when
visiting rural and suburban areas during the warm months.
Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Excerpt:

Dr. Robert Lane received a B.A. degree in psychology from the
University of California at Berkeley (UCB), an M.A. degree in
biology at San Francisco State College, and a Ph.D. in entomology
at UCB. While employed as a California State public health
biologist he began his long-standing studies of the biology of
ticks and the ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne disease
agents. In 1984, Dr. Lane joined the faculty of UCB as a medical
entomologist, a position he has held until the present. The
diseases he and his many co-workers have investigated include
Colorado tick fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, relapsing
fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and particularly
Lyme disease. Findings from these studies have elucidated the
basic transmission cycles of and risk factors for spotted
fever-group rickettsiae and Lyme disease spirochetes in the far
western United States. Bob is a Fellow of both the California
Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, a recipient of a UCB Biology Faculty
Research Award and the C.W.