Increasing your knowledge about ticks and tick encounters will make you better prepared to protect yourself and others.
How to Remove a Tick
Step 1: Pointy Tweezers || Step 2: Location || Step 3: Direction and Speed || Step 4: Consider Testing
Step 1 : Pointy Tweezers
First, let's state the obvious, ticks are tiny. Household tweezers just aren't the right tool for proper tick removal. As you can see below, there's a striking difference when compared to tick tweezers.
Chronic Lyme Clinic in RI
For several years, doctors and infection control specialists at South County Hospital have discussed the idea of starting a Lyme disease clinic to serve patients with complex health issues not responding to traditional treatment. Now the hospital has opened its Lyme Disease Clinic and begun taking referrals from local physicians.
Link to article: Hospital starts clinic for patients with chronic LymeHow-to videos
Clean tick removal
Watch a short animated sequence to see where to grab the tick for a clean tick removal.
Are you concerned about the serious health threat caused by ticks?
Would you like to make appropriate tick-borne diseases prevention programming more widely available? If you answered yes to these questions, please consider supporting the Tick Encounter Resource Center at the University of Rhode Island. Proceeds help support tick-bite prevention programs.