The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law that was passed in 1996, designed primarily to modernize the flow of health information. At the time, most medical records were in paper form, but it was becoming clear that health data would become digital in the future.
Telford and Heidi Goethert, J93, a microbiologist at the Cummings School, sequenced the spirochete DNA, and identified it as Borrelia miyamotoi, which was first found in ticks in Japan in 1995 and is closely related to the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Side effects and complications are possible with some of the drugs. Once infected, getting rid of every last Babesia organism in the body can be difficult. Relapses are possible even with treatment. Ticks are thriving in Hawaii's lovely year-round tropical climate. Hence, both these diseases are constant and ongoing threats to our dogs. Tick control is the key to preventing exposure to Ehrlichia and Babesia.