State Warning About Ticks, Even in Cold Weather

[Franky]

The State Health Department is putting some of your tax dollars into a new campaign warning people about ticks and Lyme disease. But the initiative comes a little late this year, with tick season soon to be ended by cold temperatures.

The state is spending $130,000 in the next month to put up billboards and place newspaper ads warning people about ticks and Lyme disease. But oddly enough this campaign comes at the very tail end of tick season.

The state says they’re spending money now because many people do not realized that ticks become active during the fall and the threat of Lyme disease does not diminish until the cold weather become the norm.

While the insect experts will tell you to keep an eye out for ticks on the warm days, even in the winter, we’re not expecting too many of those. Prime tick season runs from late April to early July, that’s when large numbers of younger ticks, carrying the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, are most prevalent.