Webinar Replay Available: Protecting You, Your Family, and Your Animals from Ticks
On May 7, 2025, Ohio State tick experts Timothy McDermott, DVM, and Risa Pesapane, PhD, hosted an informative and timely webinar on the growing threat of ticks in Ohio.
In this hour-long session, they covered:
- Common and emerging tick species in Ohio
- Tick-borne diseases and the pathogens that cause them
- How to prevent tick bites and safely remove ticks
- An introduction to the new Buckeye Tick Test, Ohio State’s tick-borne pathogen testing service
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Support Buckeye Tick Test
Buckeye Tick Test offers low-cost, comprehensive tick-borne pathogen testing to the general public. Help us to maintain the low fee of $50 per tick sample.
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72 Hour Test Results
Through the Buckeye Tick Test service, Ohio State is increasing awareness of the importance of tick testing and tick-borne disease risk and equipping individuals with test results within 72 hours
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Counties of Ohio
In honor of the 88 counties in Ohio, all of which have seen increase in the number of human and animal tick-borne disease cases
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Lyme Disease Nationwide
In honor of the over 400,000 annual human cases estimated nationwide of Lyme disease, making it the most common vector-borne disease in America
