In the woods of New York's Westchester County, researchers use a piece of corduroy and a lint brush to measure the density of this summer's ticks. >> Every week, we sample two to three times in our woods to monitor the tick population. >> On a scale of 1 to 10, the form tick index hit 10 three weeks in a row last month.Dr. . Thomas Daniels has studied ticks for 40 years. How is 2025 shaping up.And numbers of ticks that we've seen this year are at least 30% higher than we've seen in previous years. >> That i ...

Justin Timberlake says he's battling Lyme disease just a day after finishing up his world tour. He calls the illness relentlessly debilitating. Lyme disease is spread through ticks and causes rashes and muscle weakness.He's not the only star with the disease. Remember Shaniah Twain, Justin Bieber, Averil Lavine have all shared their stories. ...

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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 ...