Source: Leslie Young, Global News, May 5, 2019
Once relatively rare in Canada, blacklegged ticks are moving in across large parts of country, bringing with them the threat of Lyme disease.
They’re moving fast — between 35 and 55 km per year, according to Nick Ogden, director of the public health risk sciences division at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
“The ticks started to expand in the U.S. in the 1960s, 1970s and continue to do so,” he said. They then got picked up by migratory birds and other animals and carried northward.
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