If it feels like you’re suddenly seeing ticks everywhere, it’s not in your head. The U.S. tick population has exploded in recent years, largely driven by climate change, which means spotting one of these blood-sucking pests is an unfortunately routine event for people in many parts of the country.
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00:00Tick season refers to when the ticks are more active.
00:05We can say that tick season starts from early April with a peak in May, June, and July.
00:13Ticks can carry a lot of pathogens.
00:16When people spend time outside during tick season, one of the things that there are several
00:22measures that they need to take into consideration, which is wear long sleeves, long pants, stay
00:32on the trail because ticks tend to be on brushes and wooden areas.
00:40However, if you stay on the trail, there are ticks like Lone Star tick that it can come
00:48towards you.
00:49So, that's something that you need to take into consideration.
00:54That's why a tick repellent is necessary and highly recommended to wear on clothes.
01:03Tick populations are expanding, not only here in the United States, also the same situation
01:11is occurring in Europe.
01:13Climate change, warmer temperatures will be one of the reasons, not the only one, but
01:20it's one of the main reasons that we now find more ticks than 20, 30 years ago.