Sorry to say this information is out of date. The FREE tick testing is currently suspended.
https://nyticks.org/ One can still get the tick tested, but they will have to pay the current fee. 🐦Madonna Stallmann On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 9:10 AM Kate T. Finn <midwif...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have Insectishield clothes and religiously use insect repellent, and do > tick checks. Any tick found can/should be sent to the Upstate Medical lab > for free testing for tick borne disease. > > > https://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2019/06/upstate-lab-tests-ticks-for-diseases-for-free.html > > Kate and John Finn > > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 7:49 AM Lanie Wilmarth <lwilmarth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks everybody for filling me in! >> >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 7:34 AM Scott Brim <scott.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You don't need the article. Just look up babesia / babesiosis. I had it >>> two summers ago along with Lyme when it was still rare here. It's a single >>> celled organism that attacks red blood cells and platelets, like malaria, >>> and is treated the same way as malaria, not Lyme or anaplasmosis (look that >>> up too). When I had it, no one I went to had heard of it until I got to Dr. >>> Macqueen, who had dealt with it in Maine. Now I'm sure the medical >>> community knows about it. Most people fight it off eventually, but it can >>> possibly kill and can definitely linger in your system. 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