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Tick-borne illnesses are infections spread from tick to host. It is not only humans who need to worry about being bitten by these disease-ridden pests, they often attach to dogs. Don’t fear, ohDEER is here to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about tick-borne illnesses in dogs and how you can prevent them. […]
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May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month! Here at ohDEER, this is important to us because a goal of our Tick & Mosquito Control is to prevent tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme Disease. As people spend more time outdoors, so do ticks. What is Lyme Disease? According to the CDC, Lyme Disease is the most common […]
IN DEVELOPMENT – MAYBE A MORE ACCURATE TEST FOR LYME DISEASE
Today we talk about ticks and testing for disease that ticks spread. Of particular concern in the places were ohDEER does business is the deer tick (so named because if feeds on the blood of deer), also called blacklegged tick, whose scientific name is Ixodes scapularis. Deer ticks are carriers of Lyme disease. When deer ticks […]
