State Tick Tour
Join us for a nationwide tour of ticks and pathogens found in each state! For the next several weeks, we will break down the results of 16 years of nationwide tick surveillance to highlight the ticks and tick-borne pathogens we have found in each state.
We have two goals:
To remind people everywhere to check for ticks—risks are higher or lower based on your location, but they are never zero.
To encourage individuals and healthcare providers to think beyond Lyme. Lyme disease is by far the most common tick-borne illness across the continent, but there are over a dozen other tick-borne illnesses that one can also encounter, and those infections need to be considered in addition to—or sometimes instead of—Lyme disease. 35% of the pathogens we detect are something other than the bacterium that causes Lyme: Babesia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, or one of several other pathogens are all common and can cause serious illness but may require different diagnostic or treatment approaches.
The data from each state are drawn only from ticks that our lab has tested through submissions to TickReport.com or our other surveillance efforts. There may be other ticks or pathogens present that are very rare, or that we simply haven’t seen because we haven’t received many samples from a given state. For more detail on submissions from your state or zip code, visit our statistics page.
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and improve nationwide surveillance.