From USAtoday.com….
Gardeners, anglers and hikers all have at least one thing in common this time of year — concerns about ticks.
These little arachnids can be a significant problem for people venturing outdoors. Ticks can be more than just a nuisance since they also can spread disease.
This fact may be the most widely known in Pennsylvania, which has had the most cases of Lyme disease from ticks in the country every year since 2011.
Leah Lind, the Lyme and Tick Borne Disease coordinator within the Pennsylvania Bureau of Epidemiology at the Department of Health, feels the numbers for infections during last year might be lower than 2019 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
She believes people didn’t go to the doctor or hospital as they normally would because of concerns about the coronavirus. People who may have had symptoms of Lyme disease went undetected because people didn’t seek treatment as they would in normal years.
