PRO/AH/EDR> Tick, geographic expansion – USA: (MA)

Pests, Tick-borne disease — United States
Lone star ticks — and thousands of their larvae — have overrun the town of Aquinnah [on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts], biologist and tick expert Richard Johnson told Aquinnah selectmen at their meeting onWednesday [7 Oct 2020] following reports that showed a high incidence of tick-borne disease in the town this year [2020].
In a letter that went out last week, the town board of health reported 13 new cases of tickborne illnesses since April of this year [2020], including cases of Lyme