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Early 2026 data show Lyme-carrying tick rates rising as season ramps up

By the time April’s first warm weekends drew hikers into the woods across the Northeast, emergency rooms were already seeing the consequences. Early 2026 syndromic surveillance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows weekly ER visits for tick bites running above historical baselines, weeks before the traditional peak months of May through July. The […]