Tick

A SUNY Upstate expert says we're seeing more Dog ticks and Lone Star ticks, which cause different diseases.

Doctor Saravanan Thangamani's team found that 35% to 40% of ticks are carrying at least one pathogen, with Lyme disease being the major one they find.

Onondaga County health officials are monitoring the emergence of a typically rare tick-borne disease that can cause serious illness if left untreated. It’s called anaplasmosis, and it’s a bacterium spread by the same tick that carries Lyme disease

Spring and summer brings more Central New Yorkers outdoors and a greater risk of getting tick bites which carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.…