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Tick Season Summer 2025: One of Virginia’s Worst Yet
Tick Season Summer 2025: One of Virginia’s Worst Yet
Rising temperatures, persistent humidity, and land-use changes are contributing to one of the worst tick seasons for Virginia and the nation. Experts are reporting higher tick counts earlier than usual, and with it comes an increased risk of tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease, Alpha-gal Syndrome, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis.
Whether you're in your backyard, exploring a local park, or hitting the trails, your risk of encountering ticks is higher this summer. Stay alert and take precautions.
Did you Know?
Did you Know?
Virginia ranks among the top states for Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Alpha-gal Syndrome, and Ehrlichiosis.
Ticks are active year-round in Virginia, even during mild winters.
Twelve different tick-borne diseases are circulating in the state.
Early detection saves lives—tick-borne illnesses can become chronic, disabling, or even fatal if left untreated.
Your best defense is prevention. Explore our site for expert tips and up-to-date safety info to help you and your family stay tick-safe.
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Introducing Our Tick Safety Adventures Activity Book!
Introducing Our Tick Safety Adventures Activity Book!
Our activity book features over 40 fun and educational activities designed to teach kids all about ticks and how to stay safe outdoors. This new edition adds new features, resources, and includes interactive mazes, “I-See-a-Tick” games, “Tick-or-Not-a-Tick” challenges, coloring sheets, word puzzles, and much more.
Through these engaging activities, children will learn how to spot a tick, where ticks tend to hide, what to pack in a tick safety kit, and tips to prevent tick bites.
We enjoyed participating in the Data Walk at this year's Whole Health Consortium Symposium at the Hotel Roanoke on May 19th. The event brought together researchers, healthcare professionals, community leaders, educators, and industry partners to exchange ideas and drive meaningful action for communities in rural Southwest Virginia.
Our interactive poster explored the question "How bad are ticks and tick-borne disease in Southwest Virginia? We took a One Health approach and found 12 different tick-borne diseases circulating in animals, ticks, and people in the region.
Ticks in Virginia Founder, Dr. Jenny Hall, recently presented on the lived experiences of adults with Alpha-gal Syndrome and its impact on quality of life at the 1st European Conference on Tick-borne Diseases. It was the only presentation on Alpha-gal and was presented in the medical management and emerging disease session, raising awareness among attendees from 21 countries.
She is currently working on a book about how Alpha-gal impacts overall health and well-being.
We will be participating in Radford University's 2025 Residential Governor's School for Medicine and Health Sciences at Carilion in Roanoke in July. Together with the Department of Public and Healthcare Leadership, we will teach students about the diverse fields of public health through the lens of tick-borne diseases.
Students will learn the different tick-borne diseases in Virginia by tick species and engage in real-world cases studies created from our TBD Lived Experience Studies.
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