Top Ten Facts You Need to Know About Ticks

40,000 cases of lyme disease are documented in the United States alone every year, and health experts are predicting 2012 to be the worst year for Lyme risk ever. Why? A warm winter and a decrease in rodent population. What happens with fewer rodents? Ticks need to look for other hosts -- us!
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, individuals who live or work in residential areas surrounded by tick-infested woods or overgrown brush are at risk of getting Lyme disease. Therefore, anyone who works or plays in their yard; participates in recreational activities away from home such as hiking, camping, fishing, and hunting; or engages in outdoor occupations such as landscaping, brush clearing, forestry and wildlife or parks management in endemic areas, may also be at risk of getting Lyme disease. (More...)