New Jersey Is Dealing With A Tick Species That Is New To America
Bruce Y. Lee , Contributor
Looks like a bunch of New Jersey residents survived the winter. But that is not really good news.
On Friday, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture announced the latest follow-up to what was described in a February 2018 publication in the Journal of Medical Entomology. The publication detailed an "uptick" in the New Jersey population that occurred last Summer. On August 1 , 2017, after shearing a 12-year-old Icelandic sheep named Hannah, a farmer went to the Hunterdon County Health Office with some new companions. Thousands of them, in fact. No, she didn't form a flash mob. Instead, she had thousands of ticks covering her body. Yes, you can say ewe and ewwwww.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2018/04/21/new-jersey-is-dealing-with-a-tick-species-that-is-new-to-america/#39c24b3a7bc1
