Spring is here, and so are ticks
May and June are the peak months when nymph ticks are out, researchers and health officials warn. Here's what you can do to prevent a bite.
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As winters warm, ticks thrive
By Cayte Bosler
Researchers take note of northern spread of tick-borne illnesses
Tick-borne anaplasmosis on the rise in Warren County
By Kris Parker
By Kris Parker Health officials in Warren County have issued a public warning after a surge in cases of anaplasmosis, a rare disease carried by ticks. In a press release distributed this week, Warren County Health Services reported a four-fold increase in cases of anaplasmosis, a disease caused by bacteria transmitted through tick bites. Anaplasmosis,…
Low numbers may help Adirondack moose weather climate change
“We don’t have many moose, and that’s probably a very good situation to be in."
Hunting for ticks in the Adirondacks
Lee Ann Sporn, a professor at Paul Smith's College, is one of the few people who actually hopes to see ticks. Watch how she collects them.
On the search for ticks in the North Country
Wearing white head-to-toe, Lee Ann Sporn searches for ticks in the Adirondacks. Her research examines where they are and disease agents they carry.
Tick disease with COVID-19 symptoms on the rise in northeastern New York
Anaplasmosis, a tick-borne illness with similar symptoms to COVID-19, is on the rise in the Adirondacks and upstate New York.
Ticks spread in the Adirondacks as funding to study them shrinks
By Stephen Leon
Soon after he began taking Lee Ann Sporn’s introductory biology course in the fall of 2018, Bryan confided to his professor that he frequently felt sick, as though he was fighting a mysterious disease that wouldn’t go away. A freshman at Paul Smith’s College near Saranac Lake, Bryan sometimes asked during class to be excused, which Sporn later learned was due to fevers that would spike without warning.
As ticks and disease spread north, monitoring is threatened
For the past five years, biologist Lee Ann Sporn and a team of Paul Smith’s College students and Adirondack Watershed Institute stewards have monitored the rapid spread of tick-borne diseases—especially those rarely found this far north or at these elevations—throughout the region.