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“The tick that you don’t find is the most dangerous tick,” according to Angela Tucker, a medical entomology education specialist at the University of Tennessee. It sounds simple, but according to the experts who study these tiny arachnids for a living, simple strategies can go a long way toward preventing them and avoiding bites.
Ticks are more than just a nuisance; they transmit diseases with serious consequences, and cases of tick-borne illness have more than doubled in the United States over the past two decades, with the season growing longer every year. Thankfully, there are multiple ways we can avoid being bitten.
Tick-Bite Threat Is Real
All ticks are dangerous. “They vector pathogens, and any kind of tick that bites you can transmit pathogens that can be deadly or life-threatening,” Nicoletta Faraone, an associate professor of biochemistry and prominent tick researcher who runs a tick lab at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, told The Epoch Times.
