Tick Talk: What You Can Do to Prevent Getting a Tick Disease

Learn about danger zones for ticks, good protective clothing and repellants, how to do proper body and head checks, how to minimize contact with ticks, what symptoms of illness to look for, pathways for proper medical help, what diseases ticks carry, the difference between nymphs and adults in the tick species and their capacities for infection, the animal vectors for ticks and the types of ticks that carry certain diseases.

Our guest speaker is Ed Brown, the natural science educator for the Athens County office of OSU Extension.