You Can Do It! Put Up Posters for Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and in most parts of the US, ticks are out in force. In the next few months, thousands of people will be going to the doctor with mysterious symptoms because they didn’t notice a tick bite. This poster can help your friends and neighbors avoid infection by reminding them to take precautions and watch out for ticks. At LymeDisease.org we provide materials people can use easily in their own communities. Take part in raising public awareness of Lyme disease yourself.
Print this poster out–or have it printed–and see if your local library or doctors’ offices will display it. Put it on the bulletin board at the laundromat and your natural foods store. Maybe the park in your area will agree to post it. Ask your children’s school and the community college of they will post one. Give one to the Garden Club and the local environmental center. Your child might like to take one to school.
You can just print the poster out yourself or office supply companies will print and laminate them and make them more durable for outdoor use. If you need a higher resolution version for a large size poster, email contact@lymedisease.org. Check out this page for more ideas f0r raising awareness of Lyme disease during this high risk season.
Share this blog and let others in your community know about this important prevention poster.
LymeDisease.org also has free brochures. To order, email contact@lymedisease.org.
Here’s a link to the poster for you to download. Have fun!
Impossible to do. Need a tick killing program. They are very tiny and very abundant in northern New York. You cannot see them. So tiny. Spray your legs with a good repellant.
Joy, research suggests you are right. The CT Agricultural Experiment Station has excellent information about tick control. Check them out at http://www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2837&q=378212. Also StopTicks.org is in your area. You might want to check out what they are trying to do. http://www.stopticks.org/ Thanks for writing.