Keeping safe from tick-borne diseases
Searching for ticks following an outing is something many don’t do, but should, according to Angela Horvath, a doctoral student in occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa. Horvath researches vector-born disease under U of I Professor Kathryn Dalton. Ticks begin as larvae, she said. “(At that stage), it literally looks like a speck of dust, so if you have a larvae on you, you’re unlikely to know you actually have one or have been exposed,” said Horvath. She said larvae need to find a blood meal, as ticks do during each of its life cycle stages. ...
