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Tick. Tick. Tick. The US is facing a time bomb. The increasing problem is ticks – more and more of them, it is increasingly spreading, remaining active for larger and larger all year long. And for the week of June 27, Fordham Tri-State University Risk Risk It is at the highest that may be: one of 10 of 10. What is mentioned next to this score is: “If you are thinking of taking a hike, consider going to a movie instead.” Yes, the Tick situation in the Tri-State area, which includes South New York, Connecticut and Northern New Jersey, really crap now.
Fordham Tick Index Counts Tick Activity in Tri-State
When the index indicates, “think about going to a movie”, it doesn’t tell you that you are watching a movie like Frankenknhuk It is favorable to all other possible activities. Instead, focus is more in what you should not do, that you should not be outdoors between nature, where your chances of biting from ticks are “high”. Any score in the index from seven to 10 will fall on this “high” level.
Every week researchers from Louis Calder CenterFordham University’s biological field at Westchester County, NY, update this Fordham Tick. It is based on nymphs and complete crops in sampling areas. Therefore, different parts of the area of three states may have more or less activity.
It is also a relevant indicator, which means that the score is indicative of the current tick activity compared to the rest of the year. A score of four to six is considered “average”, associated with the following advice: “Ticks are quite abundant. The” low “range is one to three, accompanied by this recommendation,” enjoy the countryside, but receive precaution. “
Ticks can carry different diseases
The primary reason for the Fordham Tick index is that ticks can be quite dangerous. But not all of them are. In fact, the Fordham University website emphasizes that the “overwhelming majority of their about 900 species are benign, live in quiet blood”.
Now, “bloodthirsty” is probably not something you want to do in your spare time. It is the practice of blood supply. Ticks may look like insects. But don’t call them insects. They are really tiny eight legs arachnids, making them relative to spiders. They are also considered that parasites have become that they live from different reception animals, including humans, biting the host and absorbing the host’s blood for food.
Only bloodthirsty is not the threat. They are not big enough to drain you significant amount of blood, assuming you are much taller than 10 mm. The problem is the germs that cause disease that can carry and transmit certain types of ticks and transmit you while biting and sucking your blood. And it could really bite and suck to get a disease such as lyme disease, regeneration, babies, emilization, rocky mountain fever or Powassan virus disease. I have already been analyzed in Tower The malice that Lyme’s disease, Babesiosis and Pow can bring.
Climate change contributes to Tick’s problem
Now, if you are wondering “weather”, the tick’s situation is getting worse, you will probably be right. Changing the climate with the relevant weather standards helps to increase the activity of the ticks. Since the activity of the tick tends to recede in the cold and rising with increasing temperatures, warmer winters mean that many ticks can remain active for larger parts of the year. For example, the tick deer (Ixodes scapularis), tick hard body that can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease Borrelia Burgdorferi They are more active when temperatures exceed 45 ° F.
Increasing temperatures everywhere throughout the year have expanded the geographical areas where ticks can live and bloom as well. Just look at how the tick deer has expanded its habitat by more than 20 miles per year, An assessment that Catherine Bouchard, a Canadian Public Health Scientist scientist provided in the Maggie Astor article for The New York Times. Thus, the places where you should not have been very worried about ticks that have diseases now are places with tick problems.
How to prevent ticks
The best way to avoid bites is to avoid going where ticks tend to be. Ticks are more likely to be in wooded, brushes and grassy areas. So while it may be nice to get out of the beaten route when it comes to your career and life in general, this is not the case when you block the bites. If you have to walk in areas close to natural vegetation and potentially wild animals, try to walk in the middle of good and even paved paths. Keep your yard well so that it is not favorable for ticks or animals that can carry ticks such as deer. Otherwise, you may end up announcing, “oh deer.”
Cover your body as much as possible with your clothes, especially your hands and lower extremities. It’s not the time to go to gardening only on your leash in the Tri-State area. Wearing light clothes can make ticks easier.
Insect repellents can help. Just make sure it contains accessories such as DEET and Picaridin that can really be ticks. You can use Permethrin -based repulsives for clothes and other types of tools.
Finally, the notes of notes regularly each time you are outdoors. You can do such checks on each other. It makes you carefully control the easy -to -use areas, such as behind your knees and groin. Make sure you ask before checking someone for ticks, especially if you are on the first date.
US needs a more organized plan for how to deal with ticks
This is definitely not the first time I have written about the growing problem of ticks in the US, I have warned of the tick problem for almost a decade now. However, where is the organized plan for how to deal with it? Where is the integrated strategy on how to deal with climate change and the impact of climate change, such as the most sucky from more ticks? The longer the US is waiting to deal with these problems, the more established and more difficult to solve these problems. Then the clock fits.
