CNY Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Alliance
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☀️ Think the summer heat means a break from ticks? Think again! 🪲❌
It’s a common myth that ticks love baking in the summer sun. In reality, extreme heat and dry air are a tick’s worst enemies—but that doesn’t mean they vanish. It just changes their strategy.
When the midday sun hits, ticks head down into the cool, damp leaf litter to stay hydrated. But early in the morning and later in the evening, they are up on the grass blades waiting for a host.
Worse yet, summer is peak season for tiny nymphal deer ticks. Because they are only the size of a poppy seed, they are incredibly tough to spot!
Stay safe this summer with a few quick habits:
☀️ Stick to the center of sunny, wide paths when hiking.
🕒 Avoid tall brush during the humid morning hours.
🧺 Toss your dry outdoor clothes into the dryer on HIGH for 10 minutes when you get home (the dry heat kills them instantly!).
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Until last year, a rare species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease had been found only in the Upper Midwest.
But last June, an Upstate New York resident was diagnosed with Lyme disease caused by that rare bacterium. New York State health department officials descended on their wooded property and found mayonii in 10 ticks. The health department then ran genetic tests on 1,500 ticks that had been collected from 23 other New York counties over the previous five years. None carried the rare bacterium.
No one knows why the rare bacterium suddenly popped up in the center of New York state, nearly 700 miles from its nearest known location in southwestern Michigan.
“That’s a real mystery,” a professor who studies Lyme bacteria said.
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