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A new tick is spreading through Virginia, threatening livestock, wildlife and maybe people
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on August 4, 2023
A new kind of tick has been spreading across the United States. It may have come from Australia or New Zealand, and it turned up in Virginia in 2018.
Sandy Hausman reports on what makes the Asian longhorn especially scary and why a professor at Virginia Tech feels he was meant to help protect people and animals from the tiny brown biter.
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