Emergency room visits for tick bites near record levels

Welcome back. Tick bite cases are approaching record highs this summer as emergency rooms have reported the largest number of tick related visits in nearly a decade. Residents of the tri-state area face the most severe danger of bites according to forom university tick index which is a rating system that estimates bite risk.This week it's at a nine out of 10. Yikes. Joining us now, director of the University of Rhode Island's tick and counter resource center, Professor Thomas Mather and director and associa ...