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Expect an Up”tick” in Ticks this Spring

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As tiny as they are, ticks can pose serious health risks to you, your family, and your pets if they are carrying the bacterium that causes Lyme disease: the most common tick-borne illness in the United States.

First discovered in Lyme, Connecticut in 1975, Lyme disease was introduced when unusually large numbers of children, living near wooded areas where ticks lived, were diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Further investigations revealed that tiny deer ticks, infected with the bacteria, were responsible for the outbreak of arthritis in Lyme.

Ticks continue to be a huge problem in the Northeast as the weather starts to warm up. Sal Presti, Western’s residential manager of the …

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