Tick bites are on the rise in the US and UK. Here’s how to protect yourself

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Experts share tips to avoid the blood-sucking pests that can transmit Lyme disease and other illnesses on to humans I won’t go into gory detail about the tick I found latched behind my ear approximately 35 hours after a hike in early June. Suffice it to say, the parasite was well fed, and I was […]

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