LILPA Presents: Tick-Borne Disease – What You Need to Know!

LILPA Presents: Tick-Borne Disease – What You Need to Know!

Join Gerald T. Simons, PA-C, MPAS, DFAAPA and Long Island Library Programmers Association for this Zoom presentation.

By East Hampton Library

Date and time

Thursday, June 20 · 9 - 10am PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour

Chances are that you, or someone you know, has been diagnosed with Lyme or another tick-borne disease. Jerry Simons, PA-C, a member of the Medical Advisory Panel of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Regional Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center, and an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook Medicine, will speak about the types of diseases that are carried by the different species of ticks found on Eastern Long Island, and the symptoms, diagnostic tests, and treatment options that are available. Tips on preventing tick bites will also be shared. Hosted by Cutchogue New Suffolk Library.


A Zoom meeting ID and password will be emailed to all participants 15 minutes prior to the start of the event.

Organized by

Public Library in East Hampton NY

located at

159 Main St

East Hampton