FOX VALLEY (WFRV) – Ticks are showing up earlier in the year, and 1000 Islands Environmental Center naturalist Brad Garrity said there’s a reason why.
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“We are seeing more year to year and also an increase in the hosts, the white mice, that host the ticks,” Garrity said. “That’s creating an increase in what we are seeing in the woods.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year over half a million Americans are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness; however, this year, conditions are driving these numbers up.
“It’s earlier and earlier, so we are not surprised when we see it in March,” Brown County Public Health Deputy Health Officer Katrina Nordyke said…