Wet ticks are surprisingly hard to kill in laundry - even hot wash cycles leave a fraction alive. Tumble drying clothes on high heat for 10 minutes kills 100 percent of attached blacklegged ticks in field tests. If clothes go in damp, a longer dry cycle (about 60 minutes) is needed.
A removed tick is not biologically dead the moment you take it out - it can survive in a sealed container for weeks. CDC recommends…
The most effective personal protection against tick attachment in field studies is the combination of permethrin-treated outer clothing…
Questing hard ticks always climb upward when they catch a host. After they latch onto a pant leg they crawl steadily up until they reach…
An unattached tick can crawl on a person for hours before biting. CDC's two-hour shower rule is based on field studies showing that…
Tick tubes were developed by Sam Telford and Andrew Spielman's group at Harvard in the late 1980s. The original Massachusetts trials of…
CDC and IDSA guidance hold that Borrelia burgdorferi typically requires 36 to 48 hours of tick attachment to transmit. Removing a…