in our area is not hurricanes or tornadoes or earthquakes. It is Lyme disease. It is the one plague that might be severe enough that communities might want to engineer a wild organism in order to get rid of it or at least reduce the level of lime.Last October, deep in the island's brush, we found MIT associate professor Kevin Esfelt, a pioneer in genetic engineering, waving a white flag in search of ticks. So, we just grab it. These tiny vectors of Lyme disease were not hard to find.And you just pop it in. ...

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 ...

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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 ...