{"id":11638,"date":"2019-12-31t03:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-31t03:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/the-tick-app\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07t19:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07t19:39:31","slug":"tick-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/tick-app\/","title":{"rendered":"the tick app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetickapp.org\/\">the tick app<\/a> is a citizen science project to help researchers better understand and prevent human exposure to ticks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my home state of wisconsin is a hotbed for tick-borne illnesses such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/lyme\/index.html\">lyme disease. <\/a>the disease affects on average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/tick\/lyme-about.htm\">3 thousand wisconsinites per year.<\/a> in 2017,&nbsp;there were more than 4,000 cases!&nbsp;black-legged ticks, also referred to as deer ticks, can be found in every county in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bthe bad news doesn&#8217;t end there. our climate is changing because the earth is warming. as a result, we&#8217;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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/pubs\/vector-borne-disease-final_508.pdf\">the risk of contracting lyme disease will increase.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>but back to the tick app. although researchers know <strong>where<\/strong> ticks are, they don&#8217;t always know <strong>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - 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