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Arkansas Issues Summer Tick-Disease Alert; Infested Feral Swine Investigated

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An adult female lone star tick quests for a blood meal perched on a blade of grass.

The Arkansas Department of Healthis urging caution for those venturing into woodlands and fields this summer about being bitten by infectious ticks. Invasive feral swine in Arkansas, which attract and transport ticks, are being surveyed for tick pathogens at both the University of Arkansas - Monticello, as well as at the U of A in Fayetteville.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a tick portal including a regional tick bite tracker, which you can check out here.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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