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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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Meet Ticks-Off Mascot – RAMBO!

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Introducing Ticks-Off Official Mascot – RAMBO!

Meet Rambo – a most exciting and accomplished Jack Russell Terrier- sharing his rockin’ tick free life with Ticks-Off!

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Hi!  Rambo here – likely you’ve heard my name around town… (Tehe)    Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog! You’ll be glad you have, as I have SO much great fun to share with you, including an awesome video of me (down below a bit…).

Now you can come follow along with me on my exhilarating, exciting, and action packed (tick free) life!   Better hold onto your leashes…

I have SO many places to go and things to do, the LAST thing I need is to be getting any ticks on me.

First off, eeww – gross – ticks on Me!?!  No Way!

That would be simply horrid and UN-acceptable.Rambo-Ticks-Off

Not to mention, I can’t afford any diseases, I have too many responsibilities to risk getting sick from a tick bite!?!

So I do enjoy being regularly sprayed with Ticks-Off to keep me safe from ticks.

Unlike other sprays that have poison in them, I hate those! And that stuff they used to put on the back of my neck, that made me feel all woozy and nauseous. I say ‘No thank you!’ to those toxic products.

(And… Shhh, I won’t admit it out loud, but secretly I do really like the sleek feeling of being Too Slick for Ticks!).

An added bonus is that the humans seem to really love the way it makes my coat feel and smell, because they’re always wanting to pet and kiss me.

Knowing that I am safe from ticks let’s me be fully free to enjoy my many adventures,

(Be sure to scroll down a little so you can check out my most amazing adventure video…)

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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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Why Repellents Don’t Work Against Ticks

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Do you know WHY traditional tick ‘Repellents’ never really seem to keep ticks off of your pets…?

Whether they are natural or full of toxic chemicals, they are applied topically, or given orally,  repellents never seem to successfully keep ticks off of pets, do they…?

Why not??  Well, repelling a tick is nearly impossible and killing one is very time consuming.  

The famous movie clip below is a perfect analogy of just the kind of results you can typically expect to see when you use a tick repellent product on your pet, as the annoying ticks are still going to make the leap ~ despite your valiant efforts trying to prevent them from doing so…

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Tick-Borne Diseases and Horses

Tick-Borne Diseases in Horses are on the Rise.

This years unusual weather patterns seem to have given rise to tick populations. Ticks have become a year-round concern in many parts of the U.S., and now with fall just around the corner it’s time to become especially tick savvy in order to protect our horses from tenacious tick-borne diseases. Ticks are most prevalent in spring and in fall and it seems they may have become more pervasive in fall than they were just a few short years ago.

Tick-Borne diseases are rampantly spreading throughout the US at the highest rates ever and are being found in a growing number of new regions around the country. Asian Long Horn ticks are killing livestock (and wildlife such as moose) by literally draining them of blood. Lyme Disease is being diagnosed at alarming rates. And more tick related concerns and diseases keep appearing all the time.

The tick’s reliance on blood-feeding has unfortunately allowed it to function as an effective transmitter of microscopic pathogens. There are over 900 species of ticks recognized worldwide. Different pathogens have adapted to different species of ticks. Consequently, a variety of diseases can be transmitted by ticks to mammals and birds.

Arguably the most notable of them is Lyme Disease.

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