The lone star tick, a tick distinguished by a white dot -- a 'lone star' -- on the back of the female of the species, had been commonly found in the South. Now it also lives in the Upper Midwest, in the Northeast, and has even moved into eastern Canada
Bacterial and protozoan tick-borne diseases doubled in the United States between 2004 and 2016, the report notes, and in 2017, more than 90% of the 60,000 vector-borne diseases in the United States were linked to these particular bloodsucking bugs.
"I think it is not enough to assume these diseases are going to run rampant and our only recourse is to monitor the disease," said Ostfeld."We need to be more aggressive to figure out how to control the tick population and how to make people more aware of the safety concerns ticks cause pets and people."
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