Your mood plummets as you remember ticks spread Lyme disease. Lyme disease gained notoriety when cases spiked in 2022 and 2023, over doubling between 2017 and 2023, according to the CDC.

With the warm weather comes deer ticks. They carry not only Lyme disease but also Powassan virus. "Most of the day is spent in front of a microscope identifying mosquitoes and ticks and black ...