Experts disagree on whether there’ll be an increase of ticks. Either way, there will still be plenty of them. Here’s what you can do to avoid the pests. Source: Healthline
State Union: Tick awareness critical to avoiding Lyme disease (via Olean Times Herald)
The presence of Lyme-disease-carrying deer ticks continues to grow in the northeast United States — including New York and Pennsylvania — and health officials are sounding warnings for increased awareness Source: Olean Times Herald
This Is Why You Should Throw Your Clothes Into the Dryer After a Hike (via POPSUGAR Fitness)
Here’s how you can protect yourself. Source: POPSUGAR Fitness
7 Diseases You Didn’t Know You Can Get From Ticks (via Bustle/)
If you’re excited about the summer sun and the possibility of hiking and going to the lake, it’s worth being careful: summer is also tick season. Source: Bustle/
Experts: Number of ticks not the real concern (via capecodtimes.com)
With disease-carrying deer ticks now emerging from the leaf litter of yards, fields and forests, Cape Codders want to know: Will this be a bad tick year? Source: capecodtimes.com
State confirms first case of rat lungworm disease on Oahu involves toddler (via HNN Staff)
The state has confirmed Oahu’s first case of rat lungworm disease, and it involves a toddler. Source: HNN Staff
‘I literally got jumped by bees,’ Glendale woman says of bee attack (via Maria Hechanova)
A Glendale man and his neighbor are recovering today after surviving a bee attack. Steve Mullins, 62, was washing his car in his front driveway yesterday evening when he felt something on his neck… Source: Maria Hechanova
Woman says daughter was bitten by bed bugs at Marlboro County school (via WPDE)
A woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, said her 15-year-old daughter who is a student at Marlboro County High School suffered a bad reaction when she was bitten last Tuesday by a bed bug in a computer lab at the school. Source: WPDE
Evansville dogs trained to sniff bedbugs, not explosives (via Emilee Fannon)
Former trainer of law enforcement dogs now trains the animals to detect bedbugs Source: Emilee Fannon
Did you know? If you don’t remove a tick properly, your chance for disease increases (via wbir.com)
Experts advise that you pull a tick out completely or a disease could still make its way into your blood. Source: wbir.com
