Letter: Beware of ticks
Thu, 03/02/2017 - 9:57am
By:
Maren Holst, West Albany Township
To the editor:
Minnesota’s hidden epidemic is caused by ticks.
There are many tick-borne diseases. Lyme disease can be transmitted by an infected deer tick or black-legged tick.
A deer tick can also transmit human anaplasmosis and babesiosis.
A person can be infected with more than one of these diseases at the same time. They can be life-threatening.
Ticks can be crawling around when tempuratures are above freezing. I have seen ticks from March well into November.
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