Forbes: New Jersey is dealing with a tick species that is new to America
Last week, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture announced their follow-up to a problem that occurred last summer; “On August 1, 2017, after shearing a 12-year-old Icelandic sheep named Hannah, a farmer went to the Hunterdon County Health Office”1 covered in thousands of ticks. RELATED STORY: A genius trick to keep ticks from biting you What was particularly disturbing about this situation is that the woman was covered in a tick species not typically found in the United States nor was it one of the 5 tick species known to be present in New Jersey: Ixodes scapularis, Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor variabilis, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, and Ixodes cookei. No, the...
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