Sunday, January 24, 2021

Disease vector interrupted

A very small tick is displayed while impaled on sewing needle after being discovered on a hillside near Elkton in rural western Oregon on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Ticks are vectors for numerous known and unknown diseases worldwide including lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, tickborne relapsing fever and many others.

 

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