Ticking upward: Researcher studies rise of tick-borne diseases in Midwest

When a researcher heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a 7-year-old girl had died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever as the result of a tick bite, he thought of his own daughter, also 7 years old at the time, and the potentially fatal danger posed to vulnerable populations by tick-borne diseases.

source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210513123948.htm