Lyme disease set to rise in the next year or two

Sparks

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431195-800-lyme-disease-is-set-to-explode-and-you-cant-protect-yourself/

Worth a read, not that there's much about the disease itself that anyone here wouldn't be very familiar with; but the predicted increase in cases and the predicted increase in likely areas to catch it is worth noting.

Cass

Ticks are always a concern but i've seen a much more prevalent number of ticks on deer, foxes, etc. Even local lads with dogs are plagued with them.

blackpearl

handy enough to find on on yourself but on a dog thats another problem .

grassroot1

Bring back compulsory sheep dipping for years it helped to keep tick numbers down.
Correct me if I am wrong but as far as I remember not all ticks carry the disease and it is not yet present in all areas.

SakoHunter75

I have some ground where feral goats and deer were a constant presence, and every time I went in there I'd come out with at least a half dozen ticks crawling up my trousers or already stuck in my forearms. I was paranoid as hell about them and Lyme disease.

Then I got a deer fence put up to keep out the goats and deer. Now I might see one tick every 6 months or so, if that (and I'd spend a few hours in that same ground several times a week). And that change came about within only a year or two of fencing the place. So the lesson for me is: if you reduce or remove the carriers (large mammals like deer play an essential part in the tick life-cycle), you reduce/remove the problem.