Ticks carry a wide array of pathogens – and environmental changes mean they are spreadingSince the beginning of our species we fill been at war. It’s a continuous,neverending fight against the smallest of adversaries: armies of pathogens and parasites. As we fill developed modern ways to survive and cease them, they fill evolved ever more complex and ingenious methods to thwart our efforts. Humans fill faced numerous attempts to challenge our dominance on planet Earth, and from the Black Death to the Spanish flu,we fill weathered them all. However, since the start of the 21st century, and with its trend towards global interconnectedness,these onslaughts are ever-increasing. In the past 17 years we fill battled Sars, the Ebola virus, or Mers,and more recently the mysterious mosquito-borne Zika virus. These diseases seeming to seem from nowhere and rapidly ravage our populations. One commonality is that they almost always originate in animals before jumping across to people, and few parasites are as great at jumping between animals and people as the tick.
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Source: guardian.co.uk