the tick app<\/a> is a citizen science project to help researchers better understand and prevent human exposure to ticks. <\/p>\n

my home state of wisconsin is a hotbed for tick-borne illnesses such as lyme disease. <\/a>the disease affects on average 3 thousand wisconsinites per year.<\/a> in 2017, there were more than 4,000 cases! black-legged ticks, also referred to as deer ticks, can be found in every county in the state.<\/p>\n

\u200bthe bad news doesn’t end there. our climate is changing because the earth is warming. as a result, we’ll start seeing ticks in new areas. and in areas where the disease already exists, fewer disease-carrying ticks will die off during winter. essentially, the risk of contracting lyme disease will increase.<\/a><\/p>\n

but back to the tick app. although researchers know where<\/strong> ticks are, they don’t always know how<\/strong> people get exposed to ticks. the tick app was created to understand more about how people\u2019s daily lives impact their exposure to ticks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the tick app helps researchers learn what makes some people more prone to encounter ticks than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4929,4916,5196],"tags":[3819,591,4335,4336],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-climate","category-past-storyfest","tag-disease","tag-storyfest","tag-tick-app","tag-ticks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n