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.
2012 already looks like bad year for ticks. Tom Stienstra. Sunday, February 5, 2012. Ticks are taking over the coastal foothills right now. Some days are like a horror film, with Dracula bugs everywhere â in the high grass, on the low-lying limbs of chaparral â waiting for a victim to brush by so they can jump on for the ride. Itâs the worst season Iâve seen for ticks in 10 years and among the worst in 30 years. It isnât localized.