My family spends a lot of time outside, and on weekends we love to hike. We’ve noticed an increase in ticks, and that means “tick checks” are a necessity. Ticks are vectors and when it feeds on its host, it can pass along pathogens that cause disease. For example, In the last 15 years, there […]
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