Courtesy Story | Defense Health Agency | 06.16.2023
Is your family planning to spend more time outdoors this summer? As the weather gets warmer, keep ticks in mind. Since ticks are more active as temperatures rise, the chances of finding a tick on you, your family members, or pets increase in the summer months. Learn simple steps you can take to protect yourself from ticks....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 08.12.2020
Tick season in most areas of the U.S. begins in April and lasts throughout the warmer months, with bite cases trailing off around September, though activity is reported year-round. With the range of many tick species expanding by over 300% since the late 1990’s and Lyme disease cases almost doubling from 17,000 in the year 2000 to an estimated 30,000 cases in the United States today,......
Courtesy Story | Keller Army Community Hospital | 06.18.2015
Rates of tick bites and Lyme disease are high in the Northeast. New York State ranks third in confirmed cases of Lyme disease, only behind Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Lt. Col. Gordon Prairie, Keller Army Community Hospital's Chief of the Primary Care Dept., wants to remind people of the dangers of tick bites and how to prevent them from happening....
