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A menace of ticks is on the march in NJ. Congress must act | Opinion

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By Mary Beth Pfeiffer
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In 1975, a solitary shark terrorized multitudes on a movie screen. The summer of 2026, however, gave new meaning to the four-letter word, “Jaws.” This time, the bites were from ticks. And the hype and the fear were entirely justified. For a half-century, an armada of eight-legged arachnids has bloomed across the land, causing injury on a scale of war. Up to 2 million Americans suffer long-term damage from Lyme disease, often worsened by other pathogens from a single tick bite.
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A menace of ticks is on the march in NJ. Congress must act | Opinion

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By Mary Beth Pfeiffer
| Aol Verified
In 1975, a solitary shark terrorized multitudes on a movie screen. The summer of 2026, however, gave new meaning to the four-letter word, “Jaws.” This time, the bites were from ticks. And the hype and the fear were entirely justified. For a half-century, an armada of eight-legged arachnids has bloomedacross the land, causing injury on a scale of war. Up to 2 million Americans suffer long-term damage from Lyme disease, often worsened by other pathogens from a single tick bite.
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Commentary: America has a blind spot for tickborne diseases

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By Mary Beth Pfeiffer
| Times Union (Albany) Verified
Credit: Getty Images. Bartek Szewczyk/Getty Images The summer news has been filled with warnings of a menace of ticks, carrying Lyme disease, viruses, parasites, and — what has captured the public imagination — a life-changing allergy to meat. Recognition of the simmering implications of tickborne illness is long overdue. Article continues below this ad When mosquito-borne Zika virus was linked to fetal deformity in 2016, Congress quickly committed $1.1 billion to stop it.
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