Lyme Disease Carrying ticks on the rise.

Hunters Beware!

Blacklegged ticks, a Lyme disease carrier rarely encountered in Ohio before 2010, increasingly are making themselves at home in the Buckeye state.
Migrating from the east, populations of the tick now are thought to be established in at least 26 counties, including Licking, and they showed up for the first time this year in Fairfield County.
Ohio has recorded 36 cases of Lyme disease so far this year, including three among Franklin County residents, and more might crop up this fall as hunters stomp through the woods in search of turkey and deer.
 
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