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Why tick season is worse than usual and how to stay safe

Why tick season is worse than usual and how to protect yourself

07/06/2025

PBS News Hour

Why tick season is worse than usual and how to stay safe

Clip: 7/6/2025 | 7m 8sVideo has Closed Captions

Why tick season is worse than usual and how to protect yourself

Every year, nearly 31 million people in the U.S. are bitten by a tick. Tick-related illnesses like Lyme disease are on the rise, a trend experts attribute to climate change, human expansion into forested areas and overpopulations of deer. Ali Rogin speaks with pediatric infectious diseases specialist Dr. Andrew Handel about how to best avoid these tiny insects.

07/06/2025

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