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Doctors report an early, active tick season across Long Island and New York

The CDC issued an alert as tick bite ER visits hit highest weekly rates since 2017, with Long Island doctors warning the season is starting earlier than usual.

Doctors report an early, active tick season across Long Island and New York
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Doctors report an early, active tick season across Long Island and New York

The CDC issued an alert as tick bite ER visits hit highest weekly rates since 2017, with Long Island doctors warning the season is starting earlier than usual.

Doctors report an early, active tick season across Long Island and New York

Tick season showed up early this year, and it showed up busy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert last month warning that emergency room visits for tick bites hit their highest weekly rates since 2017 across most of the country, New York included, according to Noticia, which spoke with Long Island doctors watching the spike up close.

On Long Island, the bites are already piling up. “We are already seeing tick activity in Suffolk County and across New York State,” Dr. Andrew Handel, a pediatric infectious disease…

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