Ticked Off: What You Can Do to Prevent Lyme Disease
Ah, summer: The perfect time to camp out, hike through the woods, sing around the campfireand come home loaded with Lyme diseasebearing ticks. Unfortunately, those beautiful woods are ticks’ favorite gathering place. Here’s how to steer clear of ticks:
- Wear long sleeves, and tuck your pant legs into your socks.
- Don’t sit down and rest on fallen logs, against a tree, or on a pile of leaves.
- Avoid gathering up firewood.
Journal of Medical Entomology, Vol. 41, No. 2