DHA Public Health Launches MilTICK SURE Path: Surveillance for Understudied, Rare Emerging Pathogens [Image 1 of 2]
Robyn Nadolny (left), chief of the Defense Health Agency-Public Health vector-borne disease branch, works with U.S. Army Spc. Taylor Cremeans to identify a tick for the MilTICK program. MilTICK SURE Path uses MilTICK specimens already submitted, and subjects them to additional testing for rare pathogens at the end of each calendar year. The SURE Path program allows the VBD team to better understand emerging tick-borne threats to military communities, and notify installations and individuals if rare pathogens are discovered. (DHA-Public Health graphic illustration by Ethel Kefauver.)
