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The North Dakota Department of Agriculture said the golden retriever that disappeared from an area near El Zagal golf course tested positive for brucellosis and was supposed to be in permanent quarantine.
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April 21, 2021
They say the highest risk of tick borne disease transmission is between late spring and early fall.
Some things people can do to avoid tick bites include wearing long sleeves and pants in wooded areas, using products that contain permethrin on clothes and gear, and showering as soon as you get home from spending time in the outdoors.
If you do find a tick on you, removing it properly is critical.
“The simplest thing to do is you take tweezers, and you grasp that tick by the head or the mouth part, as close as you can to the skin, and you just pull upward. With a steady, slow motion, that tick will pop right off,” Michelle Dethloff with the Department of Health Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology program explained.