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Pittsburg study shows tick-borne diseases on the rise
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Pittsburg State University researchers collect ticks as part of a study in 2019. Although the researchers shown here were conducting a different study than the one whose results were more recently published, both groups of researchers have had similar findings. - photo by Courtesy Photo
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Researchers who spent three years studying ticks in the Pittsburg area have published their findings, which indicate that tick-borne diseases are increasing in the Midwest. To conduct the study, described in a press release from the University of Missouri—Columbia as “the most comprehensive of its kind in the Midwest region of the United States,” researchers collected nearly 16,000 ticks from locations in and around Pittsburg between March 2014 and February 2017. Among four species found, the vast majority of ticks collected were A. americanum, also known as the lone star tick.