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How Many Tick Borne Diseases are there in the U.S.?

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Just how many diseases can you contract from a tick bite in the United States…?? 

Per the CDC – at least 16 different kinds! 

  • Do you know how many of these disease can cause death?  – 6 kinds can end a life
  • What kinds of ticks are found in the United States?  There are about 90 different kinds of ticks!
  • How may spread diseases to humans?  7 different kinds spread disease to humans dogs and cats, and 9 kinds that affect livestock!
  • How many states within the United States have ticks? 41 states  have  ticks!  Check out this map….      (Unfortunately this data has not been updated since 2016, and ticks have increased in numbers and regions a great deal in the past 4 years!)
  • Recent estimates suggest that approximately 476,000 people may get Lyme disease each year, in the U.S. per the CDC.

    TicksUnitedStatesProtecting ourselves and our pets has never been more important!

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Per the CDC – here are some tips for protecting your pets:

Dogs are very susceptible to tick bites and tickborne diseases. Vaccines are not available for most of the tickborne diseases that dogs can get, and they don’t keep the dogs from bringing ticks into your home. For these reasons, it’s important to use a tick preventive product on your dog.

Tick bites on dogs may be hard to detect. Signs of tickborne disease may not appear for 7-21 days or longer after a tick bite, so watch your dog closely for changes in behavior or appetite if you suspect that your pet has been bitten by a tick.

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Ticks-2022-New Ticks & New Diseases-Have a Defense?

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Ticks-2022 Season is about upon us! New Ticks & New Diseases.

Ticks are on the rise worldwide at alarming rates. The numbers of ticks are increasing, tick-borne diseases are on the rise, ticks are being found in new and far reaching regions, and new species of ticks keep being discovered!

One line of thought is that global warming may be a contributing factor to the pandemic (as if one pandemic at a time wasn’t enough!) rise of ticks.

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As reported by the CDC: From 2004 through 2016 A total of 642,602 cases of disease caused by the bite of an infected mosquito, tick, or flea were reported in the U.S.

The number of reported tickborne diseases more than doubled in 13 years and accounted for more than 60 percent of all reported mosquito-borne, tick-borne, and flea-borne disease cases. Diseases from ticks vary from region to region across the U.S. and those regions are expanding.

50 states have now had residents test positive for Lyme disease.

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It’s Time to GET OUTSIDE and Enjoy Your Pets

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No matter what, life is here for us to enjoy.

Yet, the 2020 Pandemic changed all our lives in many ways. Masks are now optional for outdoor activities – so GO Get Outside!!

I believe the Universe has forced the planet into a major re-boot and I am actually excited to see how it all plays out!

Many folks have felt cooped up with the shut-downs. Rambo-Ticks-OffLuckily, going outside to enjoy activities with our beloved fur family members is  GREAT for the soul and body.

Fresh air is great for our emotional replenishment and it is fairly easy to maintain safe social distancing when out in an open environment.

Have you been taking advantage of your extra free time to get out and enjoy this wonderful planet we are blessed to occupy?

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Effective Immediately

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Ticks-Off is Effective Immediately…

When I was a kid I boarded my horse at a stable where we had over 10 stray dogs at all times. We stable kids would spend hours pulling ticks off those poor dogs. Gross!? Right?!

But we didn’t have a better solution.   Flea collars and sprays certainly didn’t work on ticks.

Now-a-days days we have many products for flies, fleas, and ticks.  Well, sort of… because as we all know they don’t ‘really’ work on ticks.  Not really…

I know, I hear you, you use the #1 mainstream spot-on flea product on your dogs and cats …  (Thus far, there have not been any such tick products for equines.)

Products such as topical spot-on flea killers (which are marketed as ‘the most effective’ against ticks) , and pesticide flea collars that are marketed for killing fleas & ticks, have listed some pretty scary negative side effects, such as seizures, neurological disorders, and even death.

Yet, even being highly toxic, they do not necessarily protect your pets from ticks.

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