The Oswego County Health Department announced changes today to its upcoming public viewing of the Dutchess County Tick Task Force presentation. The 2023 production will not be available for showing as planned. Instead, the task force’s 2022 educational program about tick prevention will run on Wednesday, July 26. 

The new viewing will air from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the training room at the Oswego County Health Department, 70 Bunner St., Oswego.

Top research professionals in the public health industry will present a variety of topics including:

• Emily Mader: The New York State Tick Blitz: Community-Based Science in Vector-Borne Disease Prevention 
• Brian Fallon: Two New Clinical Initiatives at Columbia - The Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Tick-Borne Diseases and the New National Clinical Trials Network
• Saravanan Thangamani, Ph.D: Statewide Tick Surveillance Research - Tracking the Emergence of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in New York
• Holly Ahern, SUNY Adirondack: Diagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease: Are Accurate Tests on the Horizon?
• Richard Horowitz: Novel Persister Drug Regimens in the Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease/PTLDS
• Mason Kauffman: Advances in Integrated Tick Management
• Brian F. Leydet Jr., MPH, Ph.D: Lyme Disease in Deer and Tick “Scare” Environments

The presentation has been pre-recorded and will be open to medical providers and the public to view. All attendees are welcome to watch all or parts of the presentation.

Lunch will not be provided. Attendees can park and enter through the Nick Sterio Public Health Clinic entrance.

The health department plans to run the 2023 Dutchess County Tick Task Force presentation, “Awareness and Protection from Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases” at a later date to be announced.

For more information about ticks and tick-borne diseases, visit www.health.oswegocounty.com or call 315-349-3557.