The ticks might be here to stay but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t go outside and enjoy nature, just make sure you check for them when you come back inside.
That from leading Canadian tick and Lyme disease researcher Dr. Vett Lloyd who is also a professor at Mount Allison University and she says with global warming the winters are easier on ticks every year and we have to start changing our behaviour and doing tick prevention practices.
“So that when you’ve been outside in the forest, or golfing, hunting, fishing, gardening, whatever, at the end of the day you strip off and really have a very close look at your body,” says Dr. Lloyd.
“That’s routinely done in the states in the tick-endemic areas and we have to catch up with that.”
Lloyd says she gives lots of talks on tick prevention every year and five years ago she would get blank stares when asking who does this and now she gets about half of people saying they do.
