Every year is a bad tick year
- Written by: Jory Brinkerhoff, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
Black-legged ticks carry Lyme disease, which continues to spread widely across the United States.CDC/Michael LevinIt’s summer, a time to hike, garden, vacation – and to be on the lookout for ticks.
From Lyme disease to lesser-known illnesses like Heartland virus disease, ehrlichiosis and Colorado tick fever, tick-borne disease cases...