As people head outdoors to enjoy warmer weather, experts warn area residents to keep their eyes wide open to avoid tick-borne ailments, such as Lyme disease.
As a rare tick-borne disease is on the rise in the northeastern United States, a local professor is awaiting test results to see whether babesiosis is taking hold in the Keystone State. Pennsylvania is among the worst states in the nation for Lyme cases, and concern about its prevalence has
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Why ticks are so hard to kill
David Anderson,Benji JonesJan 26, 2021, 04:27 IST
Once
ticks find a secluded spot on your skin, they use two hook-like structures to tear into your flesh. Then they insert a barbed straw and get to work.
Ticks transmit as many as 16 diseases, including Lyme disease, which is more than any other insect including the mosquito. Some tick bites can cause people to become allergic to red meat.
Some scientists say climate change is to blame for the spread of ticks and the rise of tick-borne illnesses.
Following is a transcript of the
video.
Benji Jones: In the summer of 2019, a bull was found dead on a farm in North Carolina. Dead by exsanguination. Which means it was drained of blood. The culprit wasn t real-life vampires, but something just as frightening: an army of more than 1,000 Asian longhorned ticks.