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Ticks Use This One Neat Trick to Help Them Suck Your Blood, Study Finds
Blood-sucking ticks might be even clingier than we thought. Recent research has found that at least one tick species seems to use static electricity to help itself grapple onto potential hosts. The trick allows the tick to extend its reach by several body lengths, the authors say. Ticks are tiny parasitic arachnids, though they’re more…
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Experimental Anti-Tick Vaccine Aims to Stop Bites That Could Spread Lyme
In the not-so-distant future, campers and hikers may be able to get a shot that not only protects them from Lyme disease but also from the bloodsucking ticks that spread it — at least if Yale-led research into an anti-tick vaccine continues to show promise. In a new study involving guinea pigs, an experimental mRNA-based…
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Maps Show North America’s Growing Tick Invasion
Here are some terrifying images of the growing tick threat in North America, courtesy of NASA satellite data. The images accompany recent research showing that warmer climates over the past two decades have allowed Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks to survive and spread farther into Canada and parts of the Northern U.S.
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Pentagon Ordered To Tell U.S. Congress If It Weaponised Ticks And Released Them Into The Public
Some members of the United States House are concerned the Pentagon may have unleashed disease-infected ticks that caused the spread of Lyme disease.