We Have No Idea How Bad the US Tick Problem Is

[JMAC]

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" Around the world, diseases spread by ticks are on the rise. Reported cases of Lyme, the most common US tick-borne illness, have quadrupled since the 1990s. Other life-threatening infections like anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are increasing in incidence even more quickly than Lyme.

Meat allergies caused by tick bites have skyrocketed from a few dozen a decade ago to more than 5,000 in the US alone, according to experts. "

https://www.wired.com/story/we-have-...daily_list1_p1



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Here is yet another reason to be thankful that my family moved from Minnesota to the California Bay Area in 1962.


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