ABC 10/CW5
It’s 4th of July weekend and a many of us will be celebrating Independence Day in the U.P.’s outdoors. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services wants people to know how to avoid tick bites when they work or play outside.
Kurt Galbreath, Associate Professor of Biology at Northern Michigan University, said that the boom we’re experiencing right now is from all the adults that were lying in wait and now, after the warm temperatures, they erupted in ways that allow many parasites to increase their population sizes at greater rates then they have historically.