Asia's Longhorned Tick Takes Its First Documented Bite In The U.S.
The parasite carries potentially lethal pathogens in Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. Now it's in North America. We ask tick specialists to weigh in.
Tick bites man.
That's not exactly news, but it is in the case of a particular tick that bit a particular man. The tick, native to Asia, is Haemaphysalis longicornis, also known as the longhorned tick. It was only recently discovered in North America.
And now, for the first time, there's a record of a bite by the longhorned tick in the U.S.
The bite, which took place last year, is documented in a journal report published in late May in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The tick's victim, who lives in Westchester County, New York, has
