New species of TICK in U.S. can kill in 48 hours

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[ATOMIC_PUNK]

www.fox2detroit.com/news/332740910-video

[JoSixChip]

Due to globull warming no doubt.

[Karliner]

Name it the Pelosi? Schiff? Bernie? Soetero? Dreaded fanged Hillary?

[Ciaphas Cain]

"East Asian", huh?

Gotta wonder by what vector it came to New Jersey.

[nickedknack]

...and illegull alien invaders.

[Sirius Lee]

Well, don’t bring back DDT. Wouldn’t want to harm any of these endangered ticks.

[Catmom]

And who, perchance, do we have to thank for this latest infestation?

Bedbugs, Hep A, and now fleas and ticks.

[Cowboy Bob]

she was “scared” by the number of ticks, mosquitos, and other blood-sucking creatures that are not dying out during the mild winters:

Cold winters don't kill them. Otherwise, they would be extinct.

[BenLurkin]

bring ‘em out

[dforest]

They are still crossing the border. Lots of bloodsuckers.

[fhayek]

Tick Tock!

[TigersEye]

Kayla Socarra, a researcher at Drexel's Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, told Fox 2 that she was “scared” by the number of ticks, mosquitos, and other blood-sucking creatures that are not dying out during the mild winters:

“These ticks and mosquitos are having a field day of sorts. [...] Bugs can move into new climates and new places where originally they would have never survived because of warmer temps and increased food supply for them they're surviving quite easily.”

Absolute unadulterated bull chit! If you want to see phenomenal numbers of ticks and mosquitoes there's no place like the Arctic Circle where the winters are long and the temps are well below zero.

[tired&retired]

My daughter was doing research on Babasia a few years ago at a large NYC Med School Hospital. Generally it only kills people with severe immune system suppression. They were losing transplant patients.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Some are killed -- mosquitoes hibernate but the colder it is the fewer will survive hibernation. Some die laying eggs in freezing water. On a good year many will die, reducing the number to come out in the spring and lay eggs. Milder winters = fewer dead mosquitoes = more mosquitoes come summer.

Ticks stay active in much cooler weather; as long as it is above freezing they're looking to feed, and some, like adult deer ticks, don't go dormant at all, although luckily the Lyme-carrying nymphs do. Although they stay active to one degree or another during the cold months I believe severe cold can reduce their numbers.

For the past few years I've been swatting mosquitoes into November. Pretty unusual for where I live.

[VA40]

It was a cold winter!!

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Tick diversity is our strength.

[Michael.SF.]

How can I get a jar of these ticks? I know a restaurant in Lexington that could use them.

[antidisestablishment]

Unpossible!

But, too true, lol. I couldn’t believe the number of mosquitoes in Alaska. The sound is incomprehensible to someone who hasn’t heard it. I think that’s what started my tinnitus!

If 60 below (-140 with windchill) didn’t kill them, I kinda doubt any weather will.

[bgill]

Originated in East Asia but found in Australia, Russia and South Korea. Trump will be blamed.

[katnip]

However, because it took six days for her husband to get the correct diagnosis, he never recovered.

I wonder how they would have treated him differently had they known the infection was caused by a tick?