Here’s a smart way to fight ticks, according to a tick expert

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Here’s a smart way to fight ticks, according to a tick expert

There are a number of steps you can take to protect yourself from ticks when you are in nature, but there is one you should take: Spray your footwear with the synthetic insecticide permethrin.Reports of tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome, an immune reaction that can cause a red meat allergy, peak in June and July in the United States.Ticks latch onto skin, clothing and footwear below our knees. Shoes are often the “first point of contact for larval and nymphal-stage ticks,” said Thomas Mather, a public health entomologist who has been studying ticks for 42 years ..