Invasive Tick Arrives In United States

As if things were not bad enough with ticks, a new invasive species from Asia has arrived in the Northeast. Get this, the new tick can reproduce a-sexually. This means the tick can basically clone themselves and reproduce without the need of the opposite sex.

The outbreak is concentrated in New Jersey, which also has the highest rates of Lyme disease in the nation.

Health experts suspect the new tick species are being spread by animals such as deer.

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Invasive Tick Arrives In United States