Lyme disease: Researchers discover ‘significantly higher abundances’ of blacklegged tick linked to exotic invasive shrub

An NBC report last week said the rate of Lyme Disease infection in ticks tested so far in 2017 is up by 40 percent compared to 2016 in Connecticut, according to scientists. Researchers with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) recently published a study that suggest an increase in the Lyme disease tick, Ixodes scapularis is associated with an exotic invasive ["]

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